Thursday's Dinner will be......

Well, hubby came home last night while I was boiling the chicken and said that he wanted to go out to dinner, and being one NOT to fight that suggestion, the chicken went into the fridge!! I'll be making chicken and dumplings tonight, probably with some homemade bread and then a shoo-fly pie for dessert.

~Carrie

Shoo-fly pie is a Pennsylvania Dutch treat made primarily out of molasses. It's considered a wet-bottom pie, because the bottom portion is a gooey custard, while the next part is more cakey, and then there's the crumb topping. It's very rich and sweet, so it's best served with whipped cream! ROFL

It gets its name because it used to sit in windows to cool, but due to the sweeteness of the molasses and brown sugar, they were constantly having to shoo the flies away.

~Carrie

My great-grandmother was PA Dutch. And while most of my family never paid it any attention, in the past few years, I have taken to that type of food preparation. I love the simpleness of it all, if you can call preparing some of that "simple!" lol Plus, my son has some mental/developmental issues, and the purity of that style really works well for us.

I am just patiently waiting until hubby gets out of the Navy (whenever that may be! lol) and we get to move to the Lancaster PA-area. I always loved visiting there while growing up, so it will be a dream come true to actually live there! (originally, I'm from southwestern PA)

~Carrie