Chicken and Noodle, Midwestern Style

Chicken and Noodle, Midwestern Style

By matt
Sunday, March 30, 2003

My god I enjoy cooking. My father and mother are both great cooks, you know how one picks up what the family likes to do. Other familes like to go to baseball games, we liked cooking a dinner! Lots of family dinners when I was a kid.

As for the kitchen in our house, It is my pride and joy. We have invested a great amount of time over the years to get it just right for my cooking. I pressure can food. I make a meal every day. I just enjoy cooking! We also have a 12' by 6' pantry in the cellar that we keep well stocked.

Woke up at 5 am, yesterday I woke up at 3 am! yuck. I spent all that time cleaning and pissing around the house till about noon then I started to get ready for a dinner that I was to make for 9 People for 5PM. Chicken and home made Noodles over Mashed potatoes. Marsha made the Green beans and bacon. Also come cole slaw. Made a mess in the Kitchen from the noodles, flour all over the place. Marsha helped red up the place after the battle. We hauled the mess O food over to her daughter Kelly's House. Kelly is a sweetie. She requested in " The Way of the Weasel. ", this dish cause it reminds her of Grandma Alberta. Marsha has guided me over the last 2 years how to get this dish just right, as how HER mother made it. I must admit that it is a really tasty dish. Personally I have never had a dish that was so very simple to make and tasted so good. When I was raised we had food that required more than 2 main ingredients. So I was amazed at how very good this stuff is. Personally I think Marsha has something up her sleeve for September's Martin Family Reunion at Oblong park in Illinois.

This is naturally a picture of our kitchen as It stands up to this date. There is really a lot of interesting articles in here that would take me a whole nuther day to just tell you about the minutiae of the acquisitions.

At any rate we arrived with the hot pots of food and brought them in with much fanfare. Got there at 4 30 and laid out the buffet for all of us. Marsha's son Mike lives next door to Kelly so he came over by invitation with his wife Stephanie and the little baby brats Mike Jr. and Sydney they daughter AKA "the Crow" so called because she like shiny sparkly things. Also Kelly has two friends Laura, whom she has know for about 15 years or more and Tom, Laura's love interest. Nobody was getting ready to eat to fast so I just made myself a plate and sat down at the dinner table all alone, BTW I don't think anyone said grace or a prayer for God's grace regarding interntional matters at this time. A bit on everyone appeared in the kitchen to get their plate fulls of grub and chow down. I know it was good cause no one said anything, they just ate and ate. Kelly said that she can close her eyes and see grandma with that plate of food. We all had seconds, then I retired to the living room to listen to A Prarie Home Companion. Soon Tom came in to listen and then Laura came in to listen too. I believe that they enjoyed the 2 hour radio show. As for Marsha, Kelly, Mike, Stephanie and the Spawn of children they all stayed in the dining room and den catching up on life's interesting moments that get handed out to each and every one of us. Ode to Joy how very much I enjoy family dinners, Great food and even better company.

Speaking of company Mr Tom is the new man on the block. Not much of talker, yet I hope. Kelly tells me that he was amazed that we have family dinners! I guess that he wondered why we were coming over to disturb the love nest! Yuck once again. I find no offense in him, other than time will open him up to the art of conversation. Or maybe he is just a quite man. Since he moved in there is now a large fish tank in the house that was enjoyable to watch. We spoke of various fish that we have both raised. Come to think of it maybe we need a common ground to talk about something. Ah it's all good. Laura has great intrest in Tom so he must have plenty to offer!

Well time to sign off of this and get it published. I need to take a shower and get busy on restoring a 1902 church pew couch that came from a realative when I was a kid! I will show some pictures of it at some other time.

Thanks for listening to me.

Matt wanted to be a chef all his life. Maybe some day!