Everyone's dinners sound yummy. 
Now that you mention it, my mom used to use it on pork and we loved it, and also had to have the apple sauce with it. I think the salt factor turned me off this time, my tastes have changed. 
I am finding out that things I enjoyed years ago no longer taste as good as I remembered. I don't think it's my taster, since an awful lot of stuff tastes yummy to me. It might be that the particular food has been so greatly modified over the years that it no longer resembles the original ingredients, or it's just that our palates have become more refined.
Looks good, Kay, Casey, and Rascal.
Bucky...funny you should mention Shake N Bake - I bought a box of that on a whim a few months ago. Hadn't had it in decades and thought I'd give it a try for a quickie chicken dinner with Tyler. It was nothing like I remembered from my childhood and even Tyler didn't like it.
I thought that was one of those strange southern cowpeas, that might have a different name, so I had to look at Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. 48 varieties, but no pumpkin peas.
But, "Do they help?"
CD
That's a man-card deduction.
BTW, I still drive a stick daily.
CD
I had a crash course in standard transmissions when I bought my first car, a 1970 VW Super Beetle. I had just enough money to get either an AM/FM radio OR an "automatic shift". "Auto-shift" was basically the stick shift without a clutch. Well, it was 1970, Cleveland radio was hot, and WMMS was rapidly becoming the best station in the nation. I needed my music! So, I got a guy friend to ride up with Dad and me when we picked up my car. He took me up to the local shopping strip to practice after the stores closed (Monday nights in 1970 they were shuttered by 6:00 PM). Learned so fast, and felt so comfortable driving, that I drove into downtown Cleveland the next day for work! Busy roads, but not exactly NYC at rush hour.
Loved that car! Until the heater would fail. Every winter. And Himself was in the picture fixing the heater. In the freezing winter. We bought me a new car...
