For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 05, 2012

In other words, that’s all he trusts himself to make without destroying it.

Be ambitious in the kitchen. After I started living along I thought I’d make a tuna lasagne. It tasted wonderful. There was one slight problem in that I had to eat it with a spoon. Some slight error with the amount of sauce. Still, it all got eaten so it wasn’t a disaster.

It’s easier to just heat something up out of a can!

And women think we can’t take care of ourselves! Ha!

LOL!! I was thinking the same thing! :-)

Wieners and beans make a great meal!

Beans beans the musical fruit the more you eat the more you toot !!!!!!!

I don’t see what’s so hard about reheating something from the refrigerator. You can burn beans and franks too. But maybe Ellie should make something that can be served cold next time.

I was going to put it more delicately: they can communicate with each other.

Weiners and beans works fine, as long as it’s all guys. I don’t see a problem here. Is Lizzy around or did mom take her?

HAHAHA Lynn just set up her daughter to be embarrassed. .Lynn’s Notes:In the north, we always had pork and beans on hand. This was serious “bush” cuisine. P&B accompanied most guides and trappers into the woods. It was common to hear a hunter say, “I’m goin’ out with a couple of pork an’ beaners” —meaning he was going hunting with a couple of guides. My daughter Katie loved pork and beans. She liked to mash them into her plate, fire them onto the floor, and occasionally eat them. They kept her occupied. And to this day, I still call her “Beans!”

John is like so many other professional people I’ve known. "Gee, I’m a college grad. I’ve gotten my doctorate. Uh, remind me again. What end of this ‘poundy-thingy thing’ do I pick up? " It’s called a hammer, John. Same ineptitude in the kitchen.

Stick with what you know…

my kind of guy heat and serve

If you’re going for a tasty dietician’s nightmare, make it a Frito pie. :)

Aw, come on now! It isn’t so hard to make spaghetti sauce. And if you follow the directions step by step, meatballs aren’t so hard! And chop some celery and onions, put them inside that cleaned, hollow chicken and you bake it for one to two hours, and it’s great!I say the hardest part to cooking is the clean-up afterwards!

Beanies and Weenies over a bed of hash browns. Now there is some good eats. I wonder if John can manage the hash browns.

+That sounds very close to shepherd’s pie.

BRAAAAAPTH!

Wait un moment , folks! Some females like beans, too. As I recently mentioned, when I was a teenager, I would make Saturday lunch for my dad, because he came home at noon. (Often he’d bring me a pint of frozen lemon custard, but that’s another story.) I’d get a can or two of pork and beans, and add a judicious amount of Mott’s apple juice. Yum. We both liked it.

If Michael were like my grandkids, he wouldn’t be bringing up “cooking instructions” when he saw his dad heating up beans and hot dogs. Our kids eat beans and hot dogs much more readily than they’ll sample some fancy recipe.

Here’s another favorite quckie of mine and my grandkids: Add cooked potato chunks and cut-up hot dogs to a pan where onions have been fried till limp and a little brown around the edges. Heat that up, adding a little potato water if needed to get right consistency. Pour in a little vinegar. Salt, pepper, and serve, passing the vinegar bottle for vinegar junkies like me. Good with apple sauce.

The English make baked beans on toast. It is delicious.

Yeah, frozen meals and the microwave are my friends!

Well pork and beans with hot dogs sounds really good to me! I haven’t had them in a long time, but Van de Camps used to have them in a can. Loved them!

Beanies and Weenies over a bed of hash browns. Now there is some good eats. I wonder if John can manage the hash browns.I have not had Beanie Weenies over Hash Brown. That sounds good!

to make it even easier, over canned biscuts. Yum!

flour burrito … cut up hotdog … refried beans … shreaded cheese … + sliced black olives/sour cream/hot sauce to taste if desired … roll it up with wooden toothpicks to hold it together … micro-wave for 1 1/2 min on high …. called “shortlies” because one time a friend asked her mom “what” was for dinner, but she heard “when was dinner” and she replied “shortly.”