Posted on 02/05/2015 4:15:33 PM PST by Jamestown1630
Unfortunately, not as well as one would like. This tip has been seen many times and some with a hoe swear by it. It was found here to be a pain. The wind blows and the paper goes. One man’s trash is another’s treasure. My gardener Dad was a fan. The difference, he was a city gardener, here it is an open prairie. If the paper can be kept moist it stays in place, eventually ‘melting’ into the soil. Here on the open, this is almost impossible. Little rain and the wind blows constantly. And the alternatives, cedar bark mulch floats away when it does rain. After a downpour the mulched flower beds look terrible with a wall of bark chips waiting to be spread out once again. Incidentally, the cedar bark and pine needle are very, very acid. Careful where it is used. Managed to kill a number of prized iris plants by using it. After realizing what had been done it was a chore to go back and add limestone to the the soil to bring it to proper alkaline level. Live and learn. Try it in a small patch to find if it’s your cup of tea.
When this is next prepared, let us know. Fork in hand and waiting. Delicious.
Do you care for schnitzel? Chicken schnitzel is so good. The lemon just bakes it sing.
Just so happens, I love cornbread and homemade biscuits. My gm each morning made biscuits from scratch. Remember staying the night at her home and waking to the smell of fresh baked biscuits in the morning. Honey, butter, and strawberry jam. Or Log Cabin maple syrup, or lol my favorite, sausage cream gravy. Nothing better than biscuits and gravy.
Cornbread almost as good. Hush puppies, jalapeno cornbread.
One day plan to do an experiment making the cb batter but before placing iron skillet into the oven, sprinkle the top with crushed spicy pork rinds. That might be real tasty. Trouble is when the rinds are bought, they are not around too long. They are too good to ignore.
Your meat loaf...do you make country, Italian, sweet and sour? Scalloped potatoes are also good with meat loaf. Peeled, sliced Idaho’s tossed in a bowl with a little flour, s/p, placed into baking dish with butter slices between the layers. THEN, a can of Cheddar cheese soup, combined one can of milk or cream poured over all. Shredded cheddar cheese on top. Scrumptious. No recipe written, sorry. As to amounts, use your best judgement depending on servings needed. This one makes more than enough for two persons and leftovers. Not certain but believe this fills a 2 qt dish
Here’s to appetites everywhere.
3 favorites—bacon, avo and egg rolls. Plus a new website. Consider this in a to-try file. printing it now.
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It must be country, because it isn’t italian or S&S.
I actually like the boxed Scalloped ‘taters. I’m big on dehydrated ‘taters. One of the darn few places I’m ok with boxed anything. And I dehydrate a lot of stuff myself.
/johnny
Still learning how to operate on this board. Believe you were sent mail accidentally so this is a confirmation. Re your boundless supply of lemons...try this, it might be of help
http://acozykitchen.com/preserved-meyer-lemons/
Gotta try the Spicy Tuna Cakes!!
I’ve been trying to give up any pre-made food and do everything from scratch. These are quick to make, keep well, and are quick to reheat, or repurpose :-)
Good for you. I try and sometimes fail :-(
BTW, I love your dog!
Is this new? :)
Great idea!
Can you add me to the list?
Looks yummy!
Going to try this one too! :)
I just made an Alfredo sauce that is probably going to kill me. 1/8 stick of olive oil and sea salt butter. 1 cup heavy cream. 1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese, 1 cup shredded Mozzarella cheese.
Please add me to this forum...
Land-O-Lakes “olive oil & sea salt” butter. It comes in a 1 lb box as either 4 sticks or 8 “half sticks”. I used an entire 1/8 stick or 4 table spoons.
JRF- perhaps one of these might help.
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BACHELOR COOKING 101
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BACK FOR SECONDS
http://backforsecondsblog.com/
BACK OF THE BOX
http://www.backofthebox.com/index.html
BACK TO HER ROOTS
http://backtoherroots.com/
BACK TO THE CUTTING BOARD
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BACKWOODS HOME
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That way, I get a meat(entree), starch, and veg that are high quality and don't take long (except all day one day a week).
I also freeze single serving fruit cobblers. No way to freeze the real whipped cream, but that doesn't take long. ;)
/johnny
Thanks. Thinking about trying it under gravel in our parking area.....hoping it will work as I will live with weeds rather than potentially hurt the wildlife that are out and about with chemicals (and very tired of pulling weeds at this point all these years).
Hope it works for you. DH has used second hand bricks-crushed (tho not so much, dislike walking on them as they hurt the feet even with shoes). He then used decomposed granite for walks. Those seem to be working well as the granite packs down over time. Of course these are probably more $ than the gravel. Good luck on your quest. Gave up the fight against weeds here. The past few years the grasshoppers have eaten everything in sight. The gardens are gone, the bark off the trees is gone. Weeds are the least of our adversaries.
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