This is the cottage that some of the Texas Canteeners stayed at.
Photo by MsBehavin
Posted on 09/30/2011 9:58:38 PM PDT by JustAmy
I know we had some bodacious lobstah cooked on that little stove in the background.
....and then there was the “ka-boom” when NYT was trying to fire up the grill to cook the corn. BWAAHAAHAA!...*ahem*....
I LOVE it!
My grandma had a wood burning stove, and grandpa would go out every morning at sunrise, to collect wood for it.
She would put out a FEAST every morning for breakfast, from that wood burning stove! Bacon, sausage, ham, biscuits, gravy, fresh shredded hash brown potatoes, fried eggs (or scrambled or poached if preferred), and ALWAYS had fresh raspberries or blackberries from their garden, served with cold cream and sugar. (On special occasions, she would make sour dough pancakes from a 100 year old starter, and serve them with pure maple syrup!) OMG, was it wonderful!
For lunch, every day (11:30 on the dot), she would lay out a table with fresh sliced beef-steak tomatoes, cottage cheese, liver sausage, cold cuts, her home-made bread, and a platter of fresh veggies.
Every meal was served with fresh cut flowers on the table, picked from their garden, each day!
Every lunch included fresh corn on the cob that Grandpa would go pick from the garden. He would husk it on the way back to the house, and toss the husks into the compost pile. He would enter the kitchen, and go to the ol’ wood burning stove, and the pot of steaming water, to drop the corn in. And, every morning, Grandma would say to him, “Not yet, Bill! The water’s not boilin’ yet!” LOL!
So, Grandpa would put the corn on a platter, and go sit in his old wooden kitchen chair, and get out his honing stone, and start sharpening knives......waiting for the ‘water to boil’.
What wonderful memories!
I’m pretty sure I couldn’t tolerate that kind of storm! :)
Oh, I forgot to add..........grandma always added a bit of sugar and salt to the boiling water to cook the corn on the cob....and I still do that to this day!
“BWAAHAAHAA!...*ahem*....”
LOL
After the *KABOOM*, he calmly looked at me and said:”Y’all got your house insurance paid up?”
LOL!!
What lovely memories. I imagine we all have memories of the awesome meals our grandmothers cooked with seemingly little effort.
My hubby has started making homemade bread (and rolls for my breakfasts with my tea), and smelling it every Tuesday...designated baking day....reminds me of my grandmother baking HER homemade bread and rolls. :)
What lovely memories, Yorkie!
Isn’t it funny how a pic of an old cookstove brings all those memories back?
The food your grandma set out sounds awesome!
YOM!
I wish I could be a stay-at-home wife, and do all that stuff.
The best thing about winter and fall, is cooking on that old stove.
It just seems to say “Welcome home.”
We burn a lot of birch, and it just has such a lovely fragrance.
I do, too!
Photo by MsBehavin
mmm...never thought of doing that myself. Hubby now steams our corn inside the husks in the microwave. They seem to be very fresh-tasting. :) Doesn’t take as long, either.
Those stoves do come in handy. 12 days is a long time if you had no heat!
*HUG*
I know...
He has always been very droll. :)
I can’t WAIT to see everyone again! Are ya packed yet? :D
We do have oil heat, but when the power quits, that’s it.
Those two stoves do an amazing job!
We would not have made it through that ice storm without them.
We couldn’t go anywhere, because everything was glare ice.
Nobody could come to us.
Sure made me appreciate what our ancestors must have gone through!
I have little piles of the clothes and stuff that I want to bring..
problem is, I keep changing my mind~
That is definitely a view I could enjoy!
Here it's called black ice but that is some dangerous stuff! Many totaled vehicles and a number of lives lost. Very scary driving!
Well, just remember that you will be coming to a warmer climate. Layers are the key, and maybe a light jacket. More tops than bottoms....and travel sizes of cosmetics. Of course,
you already know that stuff. Don’t forget the laptop. (like you would! LOL) :D
I haven’t even started laying stuff out yet. The guest bed I
like to put stuff on keeps getting used by....actual guests. LOL!
Me too! Our grandmothers must have been related! ;)
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