Tuna Salad for Sandwiches

Tuna Salad for Sandwiches

1 can tuna, packed in water and drained.
1 stalk celery, chopped in small pieces
1/4 cup pickle relish ( I use my home canned zucchini relish)
1 hard boiled egg, chopped fine
1/4 teaspoon celery seed
1/4 to 1/2 cup salad dressing or mayonnaise

mix all together. Serve on home made bread, toasted, tastes great.

Barbecued Chicken

Barbecued Chicken

2 to 3 # chicken 2 T fat
1 onion chopped ½ cup water 1 t salt
3 T vinegar 2 T brown sugar
1 t prepared mustard 1 t worchestershire sauce
1 can tomato sauce

Quarter chicken, brown in hot fat, remove to baking pan, brown onion in fat, add remaing ingredients. Simmer 30 min. pour over chicken, bake uncoved in slow over (325) one hour, service with barbecue sauce from pan. You can use this sauce for spareribs, hamburgers, other meats. Serves 4.

“Do we?”

) “Do we?” He asked. I looked at him, then the clerk behind the counter. “Do people do that here” I asked him. He said “Yes, for drug money”. I looked at my husband again then the clerk. “No” I told them. We headed for the truck. I moved as close to the door as I could after shutting it. “What’s wrong with you?” He shouted at me. I didn’t say anything, just shook my head. He had asked me for money to kill his first wife.

Liver & Onions

Liver & Onions

3/4 # liver 1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sliced onions
3 T butter 1 can tomatoe sauce

cut liver in cubes, brown with onions in butter, add sauce and water, summer 20 minutes. services 4.

This must be a very early one, because the one I remember didn't have tomatoe sauce in it.

He came

He came along the walk way smiling at us skipping rope, and jumped in. Who would think that years later, he would betray me, cover up robberies, attempted murder and tell me to shut up.

Oven Beef Stew

Oven Beef Stew
2# lean beef 3 tablespoons fat
4 T flour salt, pepper, paprika
2 bay leaves 2 cups hot water
6 whole carrots 4 med potatoes
1 cup green peas
1 8 oz. can tomatoe sauce

cut up meat, shake in paper bag with seasonings and flour, heat fat and brown meat in roaster. Mix tomatoe sauce, and water, add to meat, cover, boke in oven at 325 for 1 and 1/2 hours. uncover, add veggies, bake 1 hour more, or until done. Thicken for gravy.

This again is from the 1940 or early 1950's

THE WINDOW

THE WINDOW

Through the window, it comes creeping,
Slowly seeking,
It's own prey.

Across the room, going slowly,
Nothing holy,
Hunting what it may.

Along the hallway, it is stalking,
Through the night, walking,
Never about the day.

Into my room, it comes, seeping,
As I lay, peacefully, sleeping,
Stealing it's way.

It's presents beside me, I feel, waiting,
As I am nearly, waking,
Doing as it may.

In the darkness, my terror rising,
As I lay, silently, crying,
Wishing for the day.

Out the window it goes creeping,
Already seeking,
On it's way.

Into the night, stalking,
Slowly walking,
For another prey.

They broke in my window, front door, garage, back door, and steal my mailbox. Screaming and yelling. Makes you feel raped and violated in the worse way.

Something awful had woke me up.

Something awful had woke me up. Fear! I could feel it in my bones, down to the pit of my stomach. She stood by the bed just looking at me. I was too scared to move, when she left, I pulled the pillow and blanket off the bed and slept under it the rest of the night. I would not go back to spend the night there unless someone was with me.

reading

Protecting Her Own by Margaret Daley

for some reason I just could not get into this book till towards the end, I was sick, but towards the end, was really good.

The Black Box

The Black Box

I heard the old man’s footsteps as he came through the front door into the living room, then the dining room, and kitchen getting closer to where I lay in my bed. I played like I was asleep but he pull up a chair and lifted the covers and so started the black box, a place for all the ugly memories to go. Some place where I could hide them away and forget. For awhile.