[Jamestown1630]

This week: Country Cookbooks; Slaw; and a very different recipe for Hummus!

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-JT

[doorgunner69]

Never cared much for traditional American slaw, but am a sucker for a good Asian slaw if someone has a good recipe.

[miss marmelstein]

The Little Prairie Cookbook based on all of the foods in the Little House series. Excellent cookbook, the author went through every difficult 19th century meal described by Laura Ingalls Wilder and recreated them and simplified them for the modern American cook. While I've never used the recipes myself, the book is a treasure trove of pioneer cooking written in a very nice, knowledgeable way. Great bedtime reading!

For wonderful reading and cooking, Edna Lewis's The Taste of Country Cooking. She grew up in Freetown, a Virginia town (now lost to history) that was founded by freed slaves. She goes through the 4 seasons describing what they grew and hunted and cooked. Totally delightful and informative.

Lastly, Cross Creek and Cross Creek Cookery by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Wow! Her long chapter in Cross Creek on the food of northern Florida - Cracker food - is to think you died and went to heaven. She was also a most felicitous writer. You'll not be disappointed.

I make a basic slaw: Savoy cabbage (make sure you use the dark green as well as the light), grated carrot, mayo, red wine vinegar, sugar and salt and pepper and a bit of celery seed to complete the pix.

[KC Burke]

In the Army once I had one of my cooks making slaw dressing. He got confused and understood the abbreviation for teaspoons as table spoons on the mustard being added to the 12 gallons of slaw.

To salvage it I took about six cups of bland mayo and then rolled and squeezed successive batches of the slaw in a clean cheese cloth wrap. Without that, it was unedible.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Tomatoes and peppers will be in the garden (albeit covered with front blankets overnight) this weekend. Cukes and a couple others are out, also covered overnight.

I think we’ve turned the corner on cold weather. ‘bout time...

Wife & I are looking at utility vehicles, IE: JD Gator or the like from Polaris, Kawasaki, etc.
Anyone have experience with these units?

We’d like to find a JD 825 with low hours. From what we’ve looked at, used Gators are either near-new with < 50 hours or beaten up with 900 hours.