HERE'S YOUR CHANCE--RECIPES

I don't know about you, but I am running out of ideas for a quick simple dinner.
I am open for any and all, quick (about 30 minutes) and simple meals. No matter how hard I try, I seem to get into a rut and it is do overs all the time.
Please feel free to share any suggestions and guys, please tell us gals, what you would like to see once in awhile.
One of my husbands favorites is fajitas, beef or chicken.

First:
Cut into strips either your beef or chicken or both and marinate while getting everything else ready. A good marinade is using 1/2 italian dressing and 1/2 lime juice. I have worked in restaurants using this, it is good.

While marinating meat.
cut into strips, one whole green pepper
and one whole sweet onion

This looks like alot, but it cooks up

Then using a little olive oil procede to cook veggies for a bit, then add the meat mixture, after the veggies become tender, juice and all. All over a med high heat.

cook until past tender and starting to brown, to bring out the best flavor.

finishing up with warming your flour tortillas in a skillet and

roll mixture up into them and serve with cheddar cheese and sour cream on them.

I use refried beans as the side dish, (great for our chloresterol)
They make great leftovers for a quickie lunch too.

Well, that is my donation, please share yours.

INDY 500

I don't know if any of you were so blessed to have had a dad so obsessed with the 500 as my dad. But he spent the entire month of May at the track.
My dad was addicted to the race and all that went with it. He used to know so many of the drivers and even built stock cars to race at the Little 500 across the street from the big one.
Dad owned the big Standard Station across from the main entrance for several years and we thought that was so cool.
People from all over central Indiana used to come to dad to fine tune their cars, he had magic fingers and screwdriver. All by ear back then.
He also built cars with Bill Doty. We used to go to places around Indiana like Salem, Huntingsburg, etc. to watch races.
He never miss a Indy 500 until 1966 when he had a heart attack on May 1 and the hospital kept him for 30 days. He was not a happy patient that month, I can tell you that.
He took me to see Parnelli's turbine, and the little Novi's, what a sound they made.
We used to pack up on the weekend and get there early, sometimes in the south turn, sometimes, in the pit, and go for the qualifications. Sometimes, it was just dad and me and he would give me his watch with the second hand and we would time the cars.
I even went to the race in 1969, PG out to here. With delay after delay for rain. Went one year and met James Garner, what a nice guy. Even got to see our own CGHS 500 Queen that year. What a beauty she was. She did us proud.
So when we talk of memories, I have to include the Indiana 500 in mine.

IT'S OFFICIAL--I NOW HAVE GILLS

As I got up this morning and looked down, I saw webbing between the toes and I had this urgent craving for some corn.
It has rained here for 7 weeks with only one sunny day. The locals say, this is the worse in 30-40 years. I believe them. Seattle doesn't have a thing on us.
They have issued a flash flood warning for a total of 125 times in 3 weeks. They had a man, on the news, counting the Talapia swimming in his garage the other night.
In one area 170 inches in 3 weeks.
We had one sunny day, a week ago Saturday, on the day I had planned my garage sale.
In huge letters we advertised RAIN OR SHINE, woke up that morning to blue skies and sun and all the people that were sick of being house bound came, and they came, and they came. We had to bring in help.
They were so happy to be out, that no one tried to bargain on the stuff. We could have sold 5 of most everything we had for sale.
On Sunday, you guessed it, woke up to rain, but we didn't care, we had made a killing on Saturday.

THE BARNFIRES OF OUR YOUTH

Do you happen to remember when all the fire depts. were totally volunteer? At our little one in the Valley, my dad was a member and one year we had the biggest rash of barn fires, always in the middle of the night. He would be gone for hours and come home dead tired, only to have to go to work in the big city.
I thought those fires were one of the scariest things, since no one knew why there were so many.
But when you are at that young age and can see those huge flames, it was frightening.
I always worried about the animals in them. And the losses for the farmers.
I wonder if they ever found the cause??

That favorite pair of shoes

Did you have that one pair of shoes you wore to school, that you just knew you were too cool in them? Did you wear a pair of weejuns, loafers, tennies, or flats in matching colors to your outfits or even a pair of mocasins? Saddles?
What was your favorite pair?
Did you guys wear loafers, those black cycle boots, what were you just too cool for?

Favorite cereals and stories

We all grew up on them. Did you have a favorite, one you just couldn't get through the day without?
I had a few, Wheaties, Cocoa Wheats, Grape nuts, Cherrios, the only new one I had added after all these years, is Blueberry Morning.

One night when I was young, my sister and I made a big pan of chocolate pudding and we decided it would be fun to put Alphabets in it, for whatever brilliant reason, and eat them out until the pudding was gone, this went on for quite some time. Now Alphabets was never one of my favorites to begin with and by the time we got through that big pan of pudding and the box of Alphabets, we were ready to puke.

To this day, I can't even eat them or look at them.

CARS* CARS* CARS

Okay, keeping it light, here's an easy one.

What was the first car you drove?
What was your favorite car?
What was your all time favorite car and what is your absolutely would love to own someday dream car?

I started with a 48 plymouth, 3 on the column, with the most fascinating accelerator that would stick in the most unfortunate places, then moved on up to my 55 chevy with glass packs. That car,I really loved.

I really liked my Honda Accord, and I am intriged with the Euporean version of Mercedes Benz Nuova Class A, getting 60 mpg.
My perfect car is probably not built yet, it would be very sassy, classy, fast and get at least 50 mpg.

How about you?