Posted on 07/24/2009 3:37:21 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
Thanks for the tip on the milk for kitty.
You are a doll, folks who live near you and consider you a friend are double blessed.
I think they ate the cat food, while I was down for awhile, some place they got the energy to attack again.
They really think that I am an enemy, so am staying out of their box for now.
It is so very hot, today, maybe the hottest this year.
>>> Meat loaf decorated like a cake, with mashed potatoes <<
Darn, that sounds good. I gotta go eat..<<<
As I recall we seasoned the potatoes with onion soup.
They also taught us to stir fry zuchinni a little and then pour in the scrambled eggs, and finish cooking.
My sister in law laughed at that one, said it was an easy way to hide vegetables, and she did it with kinds of vegetables.
LOL, reminds me of making German Milk Toast, which turned out to be milk gravy on toast.
My Aunt’s did not let me live that down for years, for I learned to make gravy, when I was 8 years old, but had not thought of it in a written form, it was you do this and that happens, for me.
I’m back in the hot valley, waiting to see if my son makes it into the Air Force or not. It will be one stressful week, waiting! Patience is not my best virtue. (Or even one of them!)<<<
Good luck with the Air Force, it was good to my brother, took a kid, standing on the edge of trouble and trained him for life of work, he is over 70 and still using his Air Force education.
Glad your potatoes are still growing.
Not the frugaldad commentary, but the one it links to.
http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_9817&mbid=yhp&npu=1
I live a fairly spartan lifestyle compared to many of my neighbors, but nothing like that guy.
Neat threads, I think I’ve popped in to other some of the other ones before. Thanks!<<<
You are welcome, to read or to join in the thread, any time.
If one were young enough, living off the land would be a challenge.
But not around here.
A young man escaped from our jail, about 25 years ago, he knew how to survive and did, after a fashion.
After a few months, one Sunday he showed up at a homesteaders place and asked them to call the police to come and get him.
He had been eating raw rabbit, had all the nasty things they get here in the summer, worms, flukes, warbles, they say he was in bad shape.
Garage sale tally is now at $200.00!! My friend told me to go through my house again on Wed. because she ‘has an empty table’ to re-fill and sales seem to be higher when there’s more to choose from.<<<
Wonderful, so glad it made money for you.
I suspect that folks are in a buying mood, in the past, they whipped out a credit card and bought what ever caught their eye, now, to find something they can afford is a blessing.
But then I like garage sales, you find antiques lurking there.
Do drop in often, your input is always interesting and useful.
Spanish Rice<<<
Your cooking methods, are as I remember the Mexican mothers in the small town where I grew up, making their rice.
LOL, we didn’t put the beans in the rice, we served Pinto beans on the side.
But today, I put all kinds of things in things that I would not have 50 years ago.
Common Macaroni Salad, without a package of frozen mixed vegetables cooked with the macaroni, is boring to me.
Learned that trick from a Mormon Mother, with many small kids. Hide the veggies salad, was what she called it.
I call it good.
My wax beans are ready to be picked but I will save them for tomorrow. It will be the 1st picking for them, was 3rd and largest picking for green beans.
I was surprised that the bulk of the beans fit into the (7) quart jars I was canning.
“Hide the veggies salad, was what she called it.”
Beans on the side is just fine, too. ;)
I’ll never forget the summer when the kids were small and we had a GLUT of zucchini (as we do this year...for only TWO of us, LOL!) and I hid it in EVERYTHING.
If I could’ve found a way to hide it in their breakfast oatmeal you know I would’ve!
Anyhow, I found a recipe for Chocolate Zucchini Brownies that was really good. Of course, my smartest of the three by that time wasn’t eating ANYTHING without a ‘snif test’ but those brownies fooled even him. :)
I’ll see if I can dig that up, or find a similar recipe on the web for us.
This recipe will do in the meanwhile. I seem to remember mine was for a standard 13x9 pan. I would cut the white sugar a little (down to 3/4 cup) and add 1/4 cup brown sugar.
I’d sprinkle some chocolate chips on top during the last minutes of baking, or mix a cup or so into the recipe.
Recipe at link:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe-Tools/Print/Recipe.aspx?RecipeID=10851&servings=24
>>>12. Turn off the lights when not in the room!
If only I could get hubby to do this. I spend a lot of time turning off lights for him.<<<
HEY - I resemble that remark!
I love wax beans. Is there some reason I don’t plant them? Well, there’s always NEXT year. *SHRUG* :)
I like to plant purple bush beans because they’re easier to pick, but they just turn back to boring green when you cook them. What a rip! ;)
LOL - I’ll skip all the questions, because I know you followed the recipe...
By now they should be all processed, have pulled a vacuum and pinged the lids...
See, it wasn’t so hard was it...
>>>Save The Earth. It’s The Only Planet With Chocolate.<<<
I like that...
Oldest daughter has only been totally full of chocolate once when I took her to Hershey Park - she sat down to a HUGE sundae with triple chocolate brownie(chocolate with chocolate chunks and chocolate icing), chocolate chocolate chip ice cream, and gobs of hot fudge topping with chocolate sprinkles on top. It was meant for two to share, but she ate the whole thing. Her only comment afterward was ‘I am satisfied!’.
Of course I wouldn’t have a clue where she got that from.
Well the question before bed is - do I take them out of the canner or wait until morning? I’m letting them stay in till morning because I’m not going to use the canner again tonight and I thought I remembered you or Cottonball or someone saying to let them cool slowly. I’ve already heard them ping inside the canner. The directions that came with the canner says you can take them out to cool and I would think if it were earlier in the day, you could do another batch or two. So what’s the word from my canning mentors regarding future batches?
I planted wax beans so I can try to experiment with a 3 bean salad recipe. In our old town there was a mom & pop corner store where they made their own soups and salads for sale. I never ate bean salads until I tasted theirs. It has green beans, wax beans, kidney beans, onion & green pepper. I’ve got to try to figure out the vinegar/water/sugar ratios to match their recipe. I absolutely love it, but have to be careful how much of it you eat at one time, if ya know what I mean.
We’ve done the purple beans several times in the past, mostly when our kids were little. We called them magic beans because they changed color when you cook them. They taste the same as the green ones, just more fun for the kids to eat.
>>> do I take them out of the canner or wait until morning? <<<
I usually take mine out after the canner pressure drops but I have a couple of times been late night and fall asleep and take them out in a.m. but once after canning meat will break that habit..ha...
congrats , when you hear them seal it’s music...job well done
Cuss and more cussing.
My computer went crazy and may do so again.
I spent 3 hours attempting to get it working and have dumped all that I had working........
I am here, on a bare boned attempt, do not know if I will crash for ever, or if it was a glitch.
Don’t want folks having to guess at my where abouts.
I think the 2 babies are eating and am almost sure that I caught one drinking water.
Humane Society officer said the dogs had not been bailed out of jail.
So goes real life.
Hugs to all of you.
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