A friend just wrote and ask me where on the blog was the recipe for King Ranch Casserole. I discovered that it was not on there, so I just posted it. You will notice that it is a little different from the one that came out years ago in the Southern Living Magazines, but this one doens’t have the cream of mushroom soup and I tend to like it a little better. Just has a little more “cream flavor” other than mushroom…See what you think. Thanks Gwen for asking for it, I make it so often, I could not believe that I had never posted it. Hope Don likes this version.

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This past weekend while everyone is coloring Easter eggs and baking ham and scalloped potatoes, Randy got up Saturday morning and announced that we would be going to our storage shed to begin cleaning out things that we had brought from Texas, but do not have room for in our new place. To entice me out from under the covers, he holds up my IPhone across the room, keeps backing up until to get my phone, I have no choice but to get up to retrieve it. (No, I am not addicted to my phone, I can get rid of it at any time, well, after I win one last game of Word with my sister-in-law, and after I text all my friends to tell them Happy Easter, and well, maybe I am a little “attached” to my phone)
So we are up and headed to storage. In the back seat are a few items that we drug out in the middle of the night so that our neighbors wouldn’t see what we were taking away. I know they must think that our walls are lined up with furniture, lamps and books, as we continue to climb the steps with more bags of “goodies” that we find on the weekends. So we have become embarrassed about what all we bring up, knowing that if they are looking out their windows, they must be thinking, “how in the world can they get another thing in that condo?” But we manage. Now you have to understand that we have been at Lowe’s the last couple of weekends buying shelves for closets. It really isnt’ us, its just that there is no real storage in this place.
So as we head into the storage unit we are talking about what all we are going to do with all the things that we will be giving away this weekend. We decided to give it to our church store that is just around the corner form our storage unit. It is Randy’s plan to get us out of this unit into a small unit where all we will have to store are Christmas decorations. So as we start pulling out the out of season clothes that we have brought with us to store until next Winter, but wait, is that a cold gust of wind that I just felt when we opend the car door? Maybe I should just get one or two jackets out of this bag to take back to the house. Also, if I take a jacket of two, shouldn’t I take the long pants that match them? While Randy waits for me to go through the sacks of clothes we have brought to store, he tells me that the only thing besides these “warm clothes” that we are taking back are the cookbooks that we have come to look for. I only have about 30 cookbooks there at the house, and cannot stand not having the rest of my collection, so we are on a mission. Find the missing cookbooks. While looking through plastic storage bins, we find another box of summer clothes, so we take those to the car. We do find my missing cookbooks. There were a few more than I remembered having, but Randy hauls them to the car. It looks like between the winter bedspread that we brought, the winter clothes, and blankets that we had brought to put in storage, we ended up taking back a whole bag of “warmer clothes, just in case”.Our car is still full. Because we are bringing back a few extra items, I begin to tell Randy that I don’t think there is room in the kitchen for all my newly found “necessary kitchen items” and that maybe we should stop at a furniture store to see if they have kitchen hutches. I won’t tell you about the “look” he gave me, but indeed, since the furniture store was next to the In and Out Burger stand, he pulled the car into the parking lot and we look around for kitchen hutches. Because we are too embarrased to have any more furniture delivered during the day and they do not have delivery hours between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., we didn’t buy a hutch. We came home and ordered one on-line to be delivered. That way, it will come in pieces and maybe the neighbors will just think we are having toys for our grandchildren delivered. Something totally necessary. We will be pulling down the shades to put it together. I don’t want them to see that we have bought another piece of furniture. The people in the condo downstairs have already had a structual engineer come to put more reinforcements in the ceiling. They have been up here and are worried that our floor will just come crashing in on them one day. We didn’t accomplish what we wanted this past weekend. All we did was end up moving and organizing the storage shed into depts. One side for decorations, the back for all the out of season clothes & bedspreads and the other side for all the furniture we will try to slip back in our new place, after dark of course.