Tuesday Things.
1. I’m knee deep in my first rhubarb adventure. I made a galette, pickled rhubarb (omg!) and now I want to make a crumble. I’m still undecided if I love or hate it. Seriously looks like pink celery, and we all know that celery is my nemesis.
2. This is the prettiest mile high meringue lemon tart.
3. If you had a grandma (or mom) from the depression era, I’m curious to know if they saved… meat trays. Yes I’m being serious. Like the styrofoam trays that they packed RAW meat on. Mother Lovett would save these and reuse them (and I mean, obviously wash them, but like how?! it was raw meat?! didn’t the styrofoam soak up the meat juice?) to package up things like cake and pie for people to take home. When I think about this now, it BLOWS MY MIND.
4. 9 ways to become a better, calmer cook.
5. Thoughts on instagram possibly not showing like counts anymore? I don’t really care either way. But maybe it will be a good thing for younger people! Sometimes I can’t believe that Max and Emilia will grow up never knowing what life was like without computers and phones.
6. How to be decisive. It’s real.
7. Guys. Can I plant a strawberry plant in a pot? Will it yield, like, four strawberries? Or 40? I’m trying to determine if it’s worth it to try!
8. Pretty sure my favorite look from the Met gala was Kacey Musgraves. I know it was mild but a real life Barbie. And Laverne Cox, did you see that makeup? I want that everyday. And I was obsessed with Katie Holmes’ dress. But I’m boring!
31 Comments on “Tuesday Things.”
We have a strawberry plant in a hanging basket.. we’ve already gotten 4 ripe strawberries from it and there are TONS of little baby green ones on there
Look at strawberry pots…Apparently people have success planting strawberries in pots, especially since they wander like crazy when planted in a flower bed. I’ve never had success, but that’s not a good measure :)
Hahaha…my grandma totally reused (resuses?) any sort of packaging imaginable
My grandma reused Ziploc bags that had RAW CHICKEN in them. If you went anywhere with her that involved packing food for later (i.e. sandwiches) you had to beware of the chicken bags 😣 (you could see where she had previously labeled them.)
chicken bags!! I burst out laughing!!!
My grandmother has been using shower caps to cover oddly shaped things which need refrigeration since the 1930’s. We should have thought to patent it before whichever company stole it from her. Also butter tubs and cookie tins as storage. So many surprise vegetables instead of treats.
OMG. YES. THE MEAT TRAYS. My Depression-era grandparents were all about using them for the aforementioned leftovers. As a kid it was “oh this is kind of fun that they have this pink and green things to take cookies home” and then as I got older turned into “oh dear this is…not ok”.
You can purchase pots specifically for strawberry planting at most garden supply store sand/or online.
The kind of look urn like and have holes on the sides so the vine can poke through and do what crawling vines do.
I have never tried them because I have critters…birds especially…that would be poaching the strawberries non stop. No matter how you plant them…cover them with fine netting to keep the birds away.
Bahahaha the meat trays! Now that I think about it, of course its like WHAT IN THE HECK GRANDMA? But to 7 year old me, it meant chocolate pie was coming home to my house :) Such a funny memory, thank you so much for taking me back!
My mother in law re-washes plastic baggiies and uses them again…
Lmao at the meat trays! My husbands family also saved all their fast food containers and played drive through make believe with all the containers and trays…ew right. The meat trays though…I’m surprised no one got sick!
1.) I vote for a classic strawberry-rhubarb crumble!
8.) A lot of bizarre looks this year. I mean, I love chandeliers and have several in my home… but I don’t want to wear one (I’m looking at you, Katy Perry).
My parents immigrated from the Soviet Block in the late 1970’s and they would also save the meat trays! But they would use them as breading stations for making schnitzel and stuff, not to package leftover. Although they were definitely reused multiple times. I always thought it was a neat idea so you wouldn’t dirty more dishes when prepping food.
My husband’s grandma sent us home with cookies once and I realized the ziploc bag had been in service for 6 years. (That was the earliest of many dates on the bag.) I felt simultaneously like the most wasteful person and so thankful that I don’t feel obligated to do that!
I would love to know how to grow strawberries in a pot as well, will have to look into it. Loved Katie Holmes’ dress as well. I also loved Sophie Hunter and Zendaya, very princess like.
My grammy would save bread bags and crochet them into rugs…big ones. And of course every butter tub she could ger hands on. Love her miss her.
When my grandmother passed and we were cleaning out her house, there was one cabinet filled entirely with meat trays and butter containers. I can remember her eating her food on those meat trays.
Hello Jessica, I don’t think the styrofoam soaks the liquids, and they always put a funny pad under the fish/meat anyway. What a great idea to keep and use for give-away food! What I do is save all the plastic containers we get with everything from arugula to fruits. They even have a cover most of the time and come in various sizes. Genius. I also keep the empty yogourt containers for soups or runny giveaways.
yes, the strawberry pots are great and do work. they also can come back year after year sometimes.
My family still saves every container and bag! My aunts used to save wrapping paper and get so mad when we would rip it purposefully! No meat trays, though I did get told I was wasting oven energy by not putting a main dish in with an appetizer this Easter.
My grandma (age 87) sent me home just this weekend with food on a styrofoam tray, and some other leftovers in an old cottage cheese container. She also washes and reuses tinfoil. I baked salmon for the whole family this last Christmas and used like half a roll of tinfoil, and I could see how much it pained her that I used so much and then just threw it away!
my depression era gma didnt save meat trays that i remember but she did buy bounty paper towels (only bounty) and “wash” them and hang them up for reuse. i think that was the most extreme thing i saw her reuse. now i gotta go spend some time looking at met ball looks ! i watched on youtube the entire lady gaga fiasco and WOW…i bow to that woman !
HAHAHAHAHA!! My grandma grew up in the depression and she would save chip/pretzel/bread bags and use them like her ziplocks and she would reuse aluminum foil until it was so thin you could see through it. My grandpa would save all of the yogurt containers and plant seeds in them to start his garden every year. As funny as it is this is recycling at it’s finest and we should probably take the lesson to heart. I see it as trash, they saw a million different ways to use it.
My sister and I are almost ever meal as a child on a meat tray when we were at my Nanny’s house. Now I’m totally grossed out by it, but was completely clueless as a child!
I love reading all of these grandma depression era hacks! So my grandmother always has and still does save the plastic lidded containers of ricotta and would use those again and again for any kind of soup she made. Whenever she sent you home with soup, it was always in a reused ricotta container.
This was such nice and thoughtful post to read :) I also wanted to try plant strawberries in a pot! Probably try next year coz i just started an indoor herb garden this year and i am hoping that it really works. Also, i don’t have kids at this moment but i often think about the fact that we had a very different life while growing up, there were less phones/Ipads/ gaming devices and life was simple yet quite amazing. I hope to teach my kids to rely less on technology and more on real experiences.
I have no strawberry advice for you but thank you for asking b/c I’m berry interested in all of the responses. I’m all in on this strawberry pot idea!
I come from a long line of container savers, although I recycle most now. Our generation uses so much packaging than they did during the scarcity of the depression era (said in Chandler voice: could I sound any older right now?) My ex-boyfriend’s grandmother had a room in the house that they called “Grandma’s Kmart.” She saved everything and you could find it in there. Well, or you couldn’t find it…there was a lot of crap in there!
I loved Zendaya at the Met Gala–I thought she looked beautiful and her dress was so fun. Also Jared Leto is so hilariously weird but hey, we all have heard that two heads are better than one.
At this very moment, I have a parm cheese container on my counter to be returned to my dad. He brought me some clam chowder that he had made. I think if I didn’t return it, he’d be a little peeved. No meat trays that I can remember. But every butter/margarine (yes), cool whip container would be sent home with leftovers or dessert. Waste not, want not!
Oh my word! My great grandma totally did save and reuse her meat trays!
We have my MIL a strawberry plant for Mother’s Day 3 years ago and she potted it in this huge pot under her her second story deck. Every year it goes crazy with the amount of strawberries it yields! Do it!🍓🍓🍓