How about this for dinner...

[Raven]

egg salad with celery and lots of mayo and salt...on a sub roll with sweet pickles. Potato salad with lots of celery, mayo and salt. This wonderful cheddar cheese/tomato pie that I made with some mayo and lots of salt...two homemade choc.chip cookies. Am I sick? No. Am I a candidate for clogged arteries? Yes. Do I care? Not tonight. That was soooo good. OK, I'll go away now...g'nite!

[kixot]

1. Can you give some more info on this "cheddar cheese/tomato pie"

It sounds yummy.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. And you didn't invite us??? That sounds excellent. Cheese tomato pie.

mmmmm.

[Raven]

3. Ok here it is...sort of.

Sharp cheddar cheese...grated, about 6 oz.
10 pear tomatoes (peeled and sliced...drop them in boiling water for about 20 seconds...transfer them to very cold water until they cool...then peel them and slice them.)
Basil, fresh, chopped about 1/3 of a cup
Scallions...chopped...about 6 stalks
About 1/3 cup of mayo mixed with 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and 1/2 teaspoon of kos. salt and a touch of pepper.

Make your own pie crusts or buy them. Get the pie ready.
Line the bottom of the shell with the tomato, basil and scallion mixture.
Cover with 1/2 the cheddar cheese.
Cover that with the mayo mixture.
Cover that with the rest of the cheese.
Put a few slits in the top pie crust.
Bake at 350 for about 50 minutes.
(Put some tin foil under the pie because it bubbles over.
Let this cool a bit before you eat it

This is also pretty good cold.

[realFedUp]

7. another version of tomato pie

biscuit dough:
2 c flour
4 t baking powder
1 t salt
1/4 c butter
enough milk to make a medium soft dough...about 2/3 cup...
mix together, knead a bit and roll to fit into 10" pie pan
or frankly whatever you have around that size. Grease it
first. Cover completely with sliced tomatoes (I don't peel)
Sprinkle with salt and pepper, chpd. basil and chives.
Mix 1 cup each of mayo and cheddar cheese. Spread over top
of tomatoes. Bake at 400 degrees for 35 minutes.

[revcarol]

4. Sorry, Raven, eating my homegrown tomatoes!!

My little snack: mayo on both sides of whole wheat bread, one layer of HOMEGROWN tomatoes, peeled cold shrimp(about 10),sprinkle with fresh chives and a little sea salt.

Accompanied by deviled eggs, from eggs bought at the farmers' market,followed by HOMEGROWN CANTELOUPE, with walnut and coconut topping.

But I AM COPYING YOUR RECIPE!!

[cmd]

5. Mmmmmmm, mayo and salt

Two essential nutrients. I just came back from an al fresco dinner at my favorite restaurant. I'm sitting here with half a bottle of wine, an Italian salad and homemade spaghetti in my tum. It was a fairly healthy dinner until we added the garlic bread smothered in cheese. After that it was all downhill.

[Crewleader]

6. I love scallions in my egg salard....

but I have to skip the salt with my condition I don't need the added fluid...but how I love it! So I add pepper and scallion with the mayo and a good cup of tea ...sounds like a great dinner friend!

I'm missing the home grown tomatoes...to top it off...oh well!
Thanks for the idea Raven for supper and I'm eating late.
We are having alot of thunderstorms here and boy that lightning is something else...I live in the Lightning Capital!

Now to go eat....:hi:

[revcarol]

8. I missed you around recently, Raven.

How's your health? Did you sell your house? What's going on the in BAASTON with your new bishop?

Hey, just count me nosy. Did miss you hanging around here, though.

[Raven]

9. Hi Rev!

I've been around but lurking or else in some strange places. The house is still on the market but they tell me the summer has been slow...it will make me sad to have to leave here but there could be worse things. Boston and it's new Bishop...we can all hope! He's fired Cardinal Law's lawyer and hired the guy who helped him with the Fall River abuse cases in 1992. They were settled very decently and fairly quickly. The guy he hired is a wonderful man...I know him...my dad introduced him to O'Malley years ago. How things come full circle! I can't help but think that my dad is up there somewhere pulling some strings. We'll see, however. So much damage has been done. I'm not sure that anyone can put it right.

My health is good...better since I came to NH. Will is good, or so it seems. How are you? What's going on with you?

[revcarol]

10. No job, little money, but lots of hope.

Working for peace and Kucinich, both hopeful things to do.

Will have to move to some other part of the nation to get work soon. Wanted to stay here and settle my husband's estate, but it's getting too expensive to use up all my savings staying here.Will just leave it up to the lawyers and hope they don't mess it up, as I am the personal representative without bond. Hope I can get a place near mountains, because they feed my soul.

Your new bishop(he DOES have NH, doesn't he?) sounds MUCH better. Love NH, lived in Derry and outside of Manchester, but don't know since the "old man" is gone. Don't miss those biting flies, though.

Hope you are close enough to travel to Boston for med care if you need it. Some of the finest in the world. But I keep forgetting, things are so close on the east coast. Out here in the West, you have to go 135 miles just to START to get somewhere.

Gotta get off. Planning for the Democratic caucus FEB.3!!

peace revcarol