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Originally Posted by zeffryn (Post 3507829)

Susan, I noticed you said hotdish and had to laugh. I'm originally from Minnesota as well, though currently living in Louisiana. I think Minnesotans are the only ones that say hotdish instead of casserole. :)

We say that in Iowa too!

Iowa and Minnesota are kind of like sisters, though. ;)

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Originally Posted by weezle (Post 3517820)

My grandma almost had a heart attack :faint: when my mom (Irish Catholic girl) married my dad (Lutheran guy) and CONVERTED! Yahhhh surrrrre, you-betcha!

I'm actually the Irish :kissluck: (75) and German (25) Lutheran girl and I'm with an Italian (100!!!) Catholic guy. However, he's non-churching :dunno:, and I'm very spiritual but more of a :goodvibes Jesus Hippie :cloud9: ("the greatest of these is love :love:") and not too stuck on tradition (stand up, sit down, open, shut, repeat.) :frypan:

Do love a hotdish though. :hungry: And I like Smilies :D

Yeah we were all kinds of ready for soup and chili, had cool weather for a week, and then back up to the mid 80's again, for fun. :sunny: I believe it will cool off again this week though :rain:, so we can get back to the yummy fall chow! :stir:

PS Went to Lutheran school from Pre-K all the way through high school. In 6th grade or so, we learned a song that went a little something like this:

Tune of "Louie Louie"

Pharaoh, Pharaoh,
Ohhhh no, let my people go!

(shouting)

OOFDA! Yaaaahhh suuuuure you betcha!

(Repeat)

Ha! This whole post just made me smile! :D

My husband has just enough Irish in him to give us an Irish last name. :)

I like your views on spirituality. That's more of how I think, but I did officially join the church after we had our 1st kiddo. I thought it was important for us all to be the same. They don't call it converting anymore, even though that's what I called it! And I never told my Grandma that I'm Catholic now. :o :o

Love the song!

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Originally Posted by zeffryn (Post 3517943)

Iowa and Minnesota are kind of like sisters, though. ;)

Is that because we make fun of each other?

One of my best friends is from Iowa, and there is always some friendly banter over our states... and her driving skills. :)

I used to think MidWestern drivers were bad until I moved down here. Watch yourself!

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Originally Posted by zeffryn (Post 3517943)

Iowa and Minnesota are kind of like sisters, though. ;)

Don't say that during football season though! Daughter that lives in the Twin Cities & has been at the U of M for 5 years says "I will never be a Gopher!".
Another Irishman here! :drinkup:

My new fave lunch, I would say dinner but that implies I cook it for dinner too and Dh won't eat it but... Vegan SUSHI! I have been making mine with arugula, avocado, carrots and cucumber. SO delish! add a lil wasabi to the side and some bragg's with ginger... MMMMmmmmm

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Originally Posted by murphmitch (Post 3518441)

Don't say that during football season though! Daughter that lives in the Twin Cities & has been at the U of M for 5 years says "I will never be a Gopher!".
Another Irishman here! :drinkup:

Ha! reminds me of the LSU/UL hatred down here. now THAT is some rivalry.

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I made a quinoa casserole last night. It was excellent.

1 1/4 c. quinoa
2 cups vegetable broth
veggies of choice (I used zucchini, red bell pepper, sweet onion, 1/2 sweet potato)
seasonings of choice (i used a bit of creole seasoning, some garlic and herb mrs. dash and a few fennel seeds)

bake at 400 for 50 minutes. it's SO good. I served it over fresh spinach. Everyone, including my 1 year old, loved it.

I can imagine making it more harvesty with different types of veggies. I imagine some cubed squash and other root veggies would be pretty tasty.

Zeff, I bet your quinoa casserole would be divine with cubes of pumpkin in it. I'm going to try it, hopefully, this weekend.

EmmaD - I made those sweet potato gnocchi you posted a link for. They are good! My only suggestion is to make sure you add a good amount of cinnamon, because I found them a tiny bit bland.

Last night was thick fresh tomato sauce with lots of peppers, mushrooms, eggplant & Gimme Lean mixed with spaghetti squash :drool: It's one of our favorites.

Tonight I'm making black bean pumpkin chili in the crockpot.

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Originally Posted by chubbybunny29 (Post 3524939)

EmmaD - I made those sweet potato gnocchi you posted a link for. They are good! My only suggestion is to make sure you add a good amount of cinnamon, because I found them a tiny bit bland.

Good to hear! I haven't even gotten around to making them, I have been distracted by too many other recipes. I guess there are worse problems to have, haha. I am looking forward to trying these.

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Originally Posted by CyndiM (Post 3525127)

Tonight I'm making black bean pumpkin chili in the crockpot.

Black bean and pumpkin chili - yum-my! I have made it with cubes of sweet potato before - is it like that, or is it with pumpkin puree? I am going to look up some recipes right now.