Hi Everyone!  I feel so ashamed that I have not posted a recipe for soooooo many months.  Believe me when I say that there is no good excuse.  I wish I had one.  I wish that I could say that my life had become so busy with exciting new adventures, and I was conquering new worlds every day and had no time to put together a recipe and photos for you.  But no.  I cannot even give you a bad excuse or any explanation at all.  I am still cooking and baking, although not quite as much because I have no outlet for the finished products.  The agency where I work was fully remote for over a year and now that we are back, I am unsure how home-baked goods would be received because of the dreaded Covid germs.  I haven’t been brave enough to try it yet.  Anyway, for some stupid reason that only exists in my head, I could not make myself write up an article to post.  Which is incredibly weird because I love doing this.  I am just going to apologize and move forward. 

So, I hope that everyone is surviving.  I know that none of us are back to normal.  I am not sure when we will ever be something close to normal.  My husband and I both had Covid-19 many months back.  It was very mild for both of us, and we feel fortunate for that.  We did lose our sense of taste and smell.  Ok, that was super weird!  I, of course, had lost some taste or smell before when I have had colds and congestion but nothing like that.  Luckily, it came back quickly.  Although maybe if I could not taste for a long time, I might not want to eat so many sweet things and I might lose some pounds.  Nah, who am I kidding?  I know that chocolate is wonderful so I would probably eat it anyway. 

Since I have been away for so long and since we are all struggling to feel warm fuzzies these days, I decided to share a comfort food recipe with you.  This is a meal that my mom used to prepare, and I have always loved it.  Likewise, my kids have always loved it and I am confident that you will too.  Most of you have probably had these before but I have found that many people don’t make them at home because they don’t know how.  I am speaking of what I call Hobo Burger Packets.  They have many names.  I have seen them called burger bundles, foil packet burgers, and boy scout burgers, to name a few.  I realize that Hobo might not be the politically correct term to use but that is the one I know.  And, I don’t mean it in a derogatory way.  I think that they are called that because they are in a little bundle.  They are your basic foil pouch dinner, and they are endlessly customizable.  My mom always did them the same way.  I have only changed the seasonings so far but, Holy Cow, you could also change the veggies and the meat if you felt so inclined.  But this is the basic, no fuss, no frills, super-easy, always delish recipe.  Please forgive the quality of these photos.  I took them on a dark day and the colors are not great.  And…full disclosure I took them several months ago.  You will notice that the picture of the finished product shows a snowman plate.  I quit using my snowman dishes in February normally.  So, yeah, it has been that long.  Sigh.