Summer sweet sandwich spread

     150 packages of hot dogs were donated to  the school.  One of the supervisors there, asked  for any  alternative ways to cook them for  variety. 

     "Remember eating hotdog relish  sandwiches  when we were kids?"  I asked. 

"I still make them."  Great to serve at get togethers.   

      By the photo,  you can tell why our family gave them the name ~brain sandwiches!   

      I  know the recipe calls for a a ring of bologna.  I substitute  hotdogs.  The sandwiches are easy to make,  inexpensive,  and with a couple of hard boiled eggs give, a hot dog sandwich has extra nutrition.    I don't have an exact  recipe, but this is how I remember it:  

Tasty hotdog sandwiches.  
"Brain" sandwiches. That's   
what we called them as kids
back in the sixties.  Tasty!

1 package of hot dogs (or ring bologna sausage)  
2 or 3 hard boiled eggs.
1 Tablespoon chopped onion optional
3-4 Tablespoons of hamburger sweet pickle relish.  Yum!  
3-4 Tablespoons of salad dressing.  

(Add more or less sweet pickle, salad dressing, or onion to your taste.)

Heat the hotdogs through just enough to bring out the flavor, but don't cook them.   Grind the  first 4  ingredients in a food processor or meat grinder.  Add the salad dressing.  Stir.  Chill.  

Serve on an open face hamburger bun, or on one slice of bread. Keep chilled.  They taste better that way.  

I did find  this recipe in an old church. cook book:  It's similar but a much bigger batch!! It makes about 100 sandwiches!  Great for school or a  large party!  

Bologna Spread
1 to 1 1/2 lb. ring bologna  (substitute the same amount in hot dogs- the 1 - 1/2 lbs.)
12 eggs, hard-boiled & peeled
I small. jar sweet pickle relish
1 T.    vinegar
2 C.   Miracle Whip
1/4 c. Half & half.
Grind bologna and eggs.  Mix in the other ingredients.  Keep refrigerated.  


* Another way to use hotdogs:     Mustard and hotdog sandwiches.    These, my mother in law used to make-  Grind up a package of  hot dogs.  Stir in plain mustard,  just enough mustard for a tangy taste and  to hold the mixture together.   Spread a tablespoon or so of  the “hotdog mustard  spread” on a white piece of toast,  add a slice of American cheese, and toast the open face sandwich in the oven until the cheese melts.   Tasty hot!

Bring Agate Into The Light

 I was walking with Kate and found a super clear agate.  She tried to find one, and  I gave her  mine.  She said, "Are you sure?"   I told her my grandpa was good at finding them, and I am super good at finding them.

 So on Saturday we were walking again, and I found two super clear agates, and I said,  "I told you I was good at finding them." 
 I told the story to Gram, and she was excited to remind me how good grandpa was at finding agates.
  
The trick is to look for the "glowing rocks".  

Holding  an agate up to the light. The light passes through...



“The regular rock, the light doesn’t show through.  regular rock and an agate.  If the sun is shining,  this is what to look for...easy peasy.  Tam

Deut. 32:2 ...as the small rain upon the tender herb at hollyhockjunction 
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Hoo ray!

Hooray for camping season. 

Even if it's in your own back yard!

There's no flour on the shelves at the store.

GIVE US THIS DAY  

~Great Grandma Emma, near the end of the depression, baked a lot of loaves of bread.  She fed her farmer husband, eleven growing children, and two hired hands.  

Occasionally there were also hungry strangers who wandered  off the road and onto the homestead, and they too sat down at the table. 

After the family's new barn was raised,  Emma added rolls, rolls, rolls, and more rolls to her baking. She set them out to raise all over the kitchen wherever there was a flat empty space, and then she baked them crusty brown in a fired up wood cook stove. The  fresh butter rolls would be sold  at the barn dances held on Saturday nights when the men, women, and children in the community,   came together to square dance, have a nice lunch, and visit. 
  In all of this bread baking, every morning, Emma tied a fresh clean apron over her well worn-  much laundered flower print cotton dress. "Give us this day, our daily bread...".

On Mother's Day, untie your apron and run, and have fun! Run fast!