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 Recipe #243 - Meatball appetizers

Making my way thru my Friday Friend Cookbook, one recipe at a time.

What is the Friday Friend cookbook? I once had about 50 of my closest friends and family (from all over the county) on an e-mail forum which I called the Friday Friends . At first, most of them didn't know each other, (they knew me) but over the past 20 years, we've answered and shared silly--and serious---questions, exchanged Secret Santa Christmas gifts, had a dieting contest in which we paid a $1 a week and that money went to a scholarship fund for a Friday Friends son's memorial scholarship, and we went on a great vacation for my 52 birthday. (plus so much more....)

AND, we contributed recipes for a cookbook.

I was looking at the cookbook the other night 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 (this happened to be a question on the Friday Friend forum once---does your spouse/partner know you better than you know yourself?)--said,  "you'll never, EVER do that."
WELL---maybe I'll show him!  Maybe I will.

Which brings me to this... recipe #243

Cherrie Lou Who's Meatball Appetizers

A classic meatball appetizer.

You can't go wrong with a meatball appetizer. 

And now---for another enticing Cherrie Lou Who story!

Cherrie Lou---Cherrie Lou Who---Cheryl Louise -- Cherrie Louisiana.

Call her what you will.  Except if you call her Cherrie Louisiannnnnnaaaa! She might cry. At least she did when she was five and her siblings gave her that nick-name.  

This post is going to be short and sweet, saying goodbye to 2019...with the ghosts of Christmas past.

Not sure how to bring that all together.  I love Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" and I love my sinister-in-law (hmmmmm---typo, but I'm leaving it in as it seems appropriate), Cherrie Lou Who and she actually wanted to BE a ghost when she grew up.

It was around the same time as she was given  her nickname, Cherrie Louisiana--she wanted to grow up to be a ghost.

Her brothers and sisters tell her she can still achieve that goal.  One day.

Since this was an appetizer I made at Christmas time  (last Christmas) and Ghosts of Christmases past and Cherrie Lou Who wanting to be  a ghost---it all comes around and makes a good story, right?

Well, you can't expect perfection from me all the time!

Even in my stories.

Geez Louise guys!   

(hahahaa---geez LOUISE.  Cherrie Louise.  I'm just too punny today.  I  mean funny. 

 Or do I?)

Once we were in a mall--I have no idea why I was in a mall with Cherrie and Mike, because between the four of us, not one of us likes to be in a mall and avoid them at all costs)

  but one of the kiosks was selling stickers and there happened to be  a Casper the Ghost sticker, so her brother (the Handyman) bought her one--so it could be a visual for her life-long goal.

And that my friends, is my Cherrie Lou Who Story for today.  I hope she does not reach her goal for many many many  years.

But one day she just might and then I'll be saying  "Way to go Cherrie! I knew you could do it!"

This is Cherrie Lou Who's 10th recipe in the countdown.  You can see all her other recipes just by clicking HERE

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

My friends I bring to you recipes #243

Only 124 left to go!