Happy 2008!
The only big change we've made in our house since midnight is restoring the living room to pre-Christmas decor.
We spent New Years Eve (day) in Gonzales at the outlet mall helping the kids spend their Christmas money from Grandma Leach (more about that in the next blog), then we ate a late lunch in Baton Rouge and went to Sam's Club to stock up. We were all exhausted. The kids were in bed by 8:00. Travis and I watched "We are Marshall," and were in bed by 11:30.
A "Hobo Dinner" is what we eat for lunch on New Year's Day. It's a tradition. I don't know what significance the Hobo Dinner has to New Year's Day, if any. I don't even know if the tradition started with my mom or my grandma. All I know is it's a fun, yummy tradition, so I've chosen to carry it on with our family.
Mom used to make the hobo dinners and put them in the oven while we "undecorated" and took down the Christmas tree. We did the same thing today. Here's the recipe for a hobo dinner:
Hobo Dinners
1 lb. ground beef
2-3 large potatoes, peeled and sliced thin
2-3 carrots, peeled and thinly sliced
1 onion cut into rings
salt
pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Take 4-5 pieces of heavy duty foil* Spray each piece of foil with non-stick baking spray. Form the ground beef into hamburger patties. Layer your ingredients on each piece of foil by putting on a pile of potatoes, then a hamburger patty (salt and pepper it), then put on a few onion rings, put on some sliced carrots and then top that off with some more potatoes. Salt and pepper the whole pile, then repeat layers if you're feeling hungry and want two burgers instead of one. Seal the packets well and put all the packets onto one baking sheet and into the oven. Bake for 1-1 1/2 hours (1 hour for one hamburger patties, 1 1/2 hours for two).
* Tear off a piece of foil per each person you plan to serve. Wrap packets in two sheets of regular foil if you do not have heavy duty foil.
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