Food Trends for 2010 Sound Quite Delicious

Lake Oswego Review ^ | December 31, 2009 | Barb Randall

[bert]

My favorite and I can easily make it to perfection and not destroy wifey's kitchen

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I have a canned ham (small one) in the pantry and a can of Corned Beef. The ham is going into Scalloped Potatoes tomorrow and the Corned Beef is going to be introduced to two packages of cheap Mac-n-Cheese later in the week.

I know. The Salt Police will be all over me, but I’m using up what’s on hand. It’s the only sane thing to do these days. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

No kidding!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

If you’re unfamiliar with ‘The Two Fat Ladies’ cooking show, please borrow their DVDs or cookbooks from your library, or rent the DVDs.

They are WONDERFUL. Yes, they’re English, but they really know how to cook...and they’re funny as heck! Very basic dishes, with the exception of some of the seafood dishes...but I’m landlocked, so that seems ‘exotic’ to me.

They have wonderful recipes for game, or just substitute a chicken or a Cornish Hen or beef if you don’t hunt.

I’m using a number of their recipes in the menu for my 50th Birthday Extravaganza this coming summer. :)

http://psjk.homestead.com/twofatladies.html

[CaptRon]

Let me know if you need any spam recipes. I have over 100.

Damn the Salt Police! You need salt!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Um...thanks, but no thanks. I grew up poor on Spam and Free Government Cheese. I’ve had my fill, LOL! :)

[NormsRevenge]

Let me guess. Cheese is in. :-)

[familyop]

"If there is a word that should be banned from the lexicon, it is 'sustainable.'"

...because of big business using fake environmentalists to keep peasants from doing home projects and starting small businesses? If so, I'm with you on that sentiment.

We, who are inclined toward technological tinkering, are going to shove that word back to the globalist slavers during the years to come. Our plans are for people who will do some work for themselves--not builders' local government partnership rackets, big government subsidies or jealous, coveting NIMBY suck-ups to local governments.

Be frugal, and become more independent. Starve the beast. We need new leaders in business, politics and academia.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

In good times and bad, cheese never loses it's appeal! :)

[cripplecreek]

because of big business using fake environmentalists to keep peasants from doing home projects and starting small businesses?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who recognizes the true culprits behind the clmate change and banking scams.

[NormsRevenge]

I love fondue but never eat it.

My cheese intake has been lagging of late.

It may be global warming. drat.

[Yo-Yo]

...because of big business using fake environmentalists to keep peasants from doing home projects and starting small businesses? If so, I'm with you on that sentiment.

No, because "sustainable" has become the new marketing buzz word that is supposed to imply some sort of self-righteous superiority to a product.

Your goals are laudable and I fully support them.

[handmade]

My mom made saurkraut in the big crock, out in the yard by the corner of the house. Went out every day or so and removed the scum that would form. Did the same thing with dill pickles. I have made kraut but not in that size crock.

[handmade]

Not new to my family- kids learned and do also.

[cripplecreek]

I was reading about sauerkraut a bit ago and it sounds like a really good food healthwise. (Homemade)

[handmade]

Try Quaker corn meal, or if you are able, grind your own corn. There is the proverbial recipe on the Quaker box that is good. Corn meal is like biscuits- don’t not overmix.
This is not a mix, but it is a very simple and good recipe.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Went out every day or so and removed the scum that would form

So you had trouble with the "homeless" bums then too?

[handmade]

Spam is part of my food storage, but I do not have very many recipes- I would think it would be reasonably easy to incorporate into a recipe. Suggestions welcome.

[handmade]

I had saurkraut in Warsaw back in the late 1980s and it was great. Open barrel, combined with the woman putting it in the take home container wearing gloves and using tongs. It was more mellow than we have here-did not have such a bite, and was absolutely great. I went back and bought another pound. I was told it is aged a minimum of a year.

[CaptRon]

I’ll send some along in the next few days.