Mom's Way!

Now I wouldn't say I pride myself on doing things the exact opposite of my mom. I'm not the type of kid that thinks mom knows nothing and I know best. I really don't think I ever was that way not even during my teen years.

When my mom was here this past September. She told me it works best to not put a tomato and certain other veggies in a plastic bag before putting them in the fridge. For months now I've ignored this piece of advice. I ignore the piece of advice each time I put away a tomato or a bell pepper. Basically her words roll through my head almost on a daily basis concerning this advice! Well I recently decided to take the advice, try putting the tomato in with no baggie as it's protection from the element s within my fridge. The result was that it dried out on the side where it had been cut. Next up to try was a bell pepper. The bell pepper fared worse! He dried out on the edge that had been cut but he also has begun to shrivel up. The bell pepper is quite the interesting sight right now! So what I've learned?...that particular piece of kitchen advice from my mom is not going to work for me. However, the reason that might not work here in big D could be due to the overall climate difference.

One way in the kitchen that I do copy my mom is with my sloppy joes. Or should I say her sloppy joes! I have tried making sloppy joes a few ways. One night I used real peppers and had my fingers burning so bad I was uncomfortable. Certain types of peppers when you cut them open will cause your skin to burn if you aren't careful on how you handle them. Anyway, after attempting different recipes that didn't remind me of the type of sloppy joes my mom made when I was a kid, I decided mom had the best recipe. There's no such thing as improving her way of doing sloppy joes!