A Favorite Meal . . . 30 plus years later

The Thalias

A women's club in Nevada

use a Tasting Tour

as their fundraiser.

Started way back in 78 or79.

It was a great event

A theme, great food prepared by The Thalias

And . . . . it was also a homes tour

Each year there were three houses

And one of them was always an old one.

There were a limited number of tickets

And they always sold out quickly

In those early years, The Thalias also sold cookbooks

Which detailed the menus for each home

which included the tasting recipes as well as other recipes from the members

We always bought our tickets early

And always bought the cookbook on the first stop

(in case they ran out)

I have all the cookbooks

And they are ones that I truly treasure

And a lot of our favorite foods comes from those pages.

My favorite meal, however,

was at the 1984 tour

The theme was

Brunch, Luncheon and Dinner

And as I sat in Sally Thorpe's living room

I fell in love with the meal

The Dinner meal

(as served on the Tasting Tour)

Spinach Balls

Oven-fried Parmesan Chicken

Cheese Potatoes O'Brien

Green Pea Salad

Cranberries Amaretto

Orange Muffins

Overnight Meringues

That night for dinner, having a whole chicken in the fridge and peas in the pantry,

I recreated the chicken, potatoes and salad that we were served.

And it became a favorite meal when we lived in Nevada

I had forgotten about that meal and that cookbook until I decided to try the

Scarlet Ring Meatloaf

which is also in that same 1984 cookbook

The Oven-fried Parmesan Chicken updated from whole chicken to chicken strips

Cheese Potatoes O'Brien

The chicken and potatoes with the pea salad updated with fresh peas and a sprinkle of paprika

The cookbook is definitely loved!

Friend Patsy McCullough (whose chicken red apple has been renamed by us as "Sarah's Chicken")

submitted the chicken recipe

The potato recipe is Bonnie Jane Teel's

As is the pea salad.

I used frozen peas instead of the canned ones

And I think it makes for a better salad.