And as Camelot was to the Kennedy Administration and Oh! Calcutta and Bloodcwere during the Nixon Adminstration (choreography and stagecraft by Kissinger) Hamilton appears to be for that of the first BLACK-black president.
But nothong beats a big song and dance finale…just imagine Barack and his cabinet, arm in arm, side shuffling stage left (where else but) as Hillary jiggles her way into the Offal Office. Or not, it is close to lunch for some…
Wondering when the New Orleans mayor will demand that the statue of Jackson in Javkson Square be taken down and replaced with a statue of Tubman put up in its place. Hmmmmm…Tubman Square…?
When residents at the Central Park Zoo were asked about their opinions on Cruz’s chances of winning the state’s primary, this pair said they didn’t want to stick their necks out but…
It’s late folks, the good stuff doesn’t come on until the last show.
Honorable ex-Space Command analyst has joke about Haedonggong vodka being fuel that keeps No-dong missile up but cannot find honorable way to present it.
Thank goodness, Cammilla the horseface was too old and long in the tooth, when she finally finagled a marriage to Prince Charles to have any that looked like her. In case it isn’t clear……………..I DON’T LIKE HER.
Obama showing hiw well he can tap dance on sand. Saudis agenda includes pushing back on the Iranians as the Iranians try to expand their influence (via thinly veiled military threats) in the Gulf while Obama’s agenda is to disengage and let Iran do what it wants to in tne area.
Saudis have hinted they might start selling off $750-billion in US assets but that’s largely a threat though it shows how hard they want soneone other than Captain Wrongway Peachfuzz at the international helm.
Good Morning Everyone ! I’ll take a plate just like the first one please ! 😀 After sitting on the side of the road and missing a doctors appointment Tuesday afternoon and being left with a truck to drive to work on Wednesday that has a combination of wiggle wiggle put it in park for reverse and 2 for drive and all that junk with out being told what was what I might need just a little something extra in the coffee this morning PLEASEEEEEEEE ! 😀 Now off to another exciting day. I hope everyone has a great day.
OOPs I forgot to say thank you for the breakfast, how rude of me. Sorry to eat and run but I so enjoy stopping by here even if I am always in a rush or can’t stay and chat.
Two in a roll took a tole on me . I had to get a glass of wine after each day. I haven’t done that in a while. The wine really did help because I forgot what I was up set about when I started to relax. 🙂
Just saw an article that says a new study says bacon and processed meat makes you 18% more likely to develop stomach cancer. I don’t know why they’re always attacking our bacon.
I don’t know what they call it now, but it used to be called salt peter. We never used it to make our bacon. We take our pigs to a butcher now and he doesn’t use it either.
We’ve never had a problem with out bacon, but we freeze it. Now once you thaw it out it only lasts a few days in the fridge, but we have him to put it in small enough packages that we can fry and eat all of it when we thaw it out.
Potassium nitrate, innocuous soubding things like Prague powder, all various nitrates used to keep bacteria (read as libility) down and meats looking fresh and tasty. You make your meat products carefully and store them sensibly you shouldn’t have problems.
Zactly, and if you fo your own you do not need nitrates to,preserve it, a good smoke job and proper storage will do it. You can also cut it as thickly as it designed to be cut and properly bake it.
Morning all, slept in but sarcasm-o-meter’s pegging in the high 80s. Late nite, Chinese food, good vodka (no, not North Korean) all feeds into active retiree ennui. Onward and upward to beet planting…
We love canned beets for borsht and Havard beets (shades of school lunch), pickled beets for snacking and beets for the sake of beets. Putting in a few feet of turnips for mashed turnips (boiled in chicken stock).
I refused to eat them until about a year ago. How stupid can I be? I keep a beet salad (Tupelo Honey recipe) in my fridge almost always now and I slather my salads with it. I also dump it in my smoothies, partly for the flavor and nutrition, and partly because I like to make green smoothies but can’t quite get used to actually drinking something green. Beets turn any smoothie color to something that actually looks good.
And turnips, can’t forget the turnips. This is a one-off Easternish European household, root vegetables in the summer garden and cabbage family veggies in the winter..
I love turnip greens but not fond of the root. Almost everything you can plant I can find a way to like some part of, except radishes, I hate radishes.
My sister who always seems to show up when it gets time for the garden to start producing, always whines about salads without radishes and why don’t we plant radishes. I always tell her because we all hate radishes and she could grow her own nasty radishes.
Be generous, buy a medium sized pot and about 21 days before she shows up for a salad just sprinkle the seeds. If you really want to be hospitable and show how much you care you can just put the pot on the table next to her place and say “Enjoy!”.
I ate mashed turnips years before I ate mashed potatoes. First time I had mashed potatoes I thought they were bleached turnips. Takes a bit more work to do turnips (blessed be the hand blender) but I like them better.
That is interesting, I never knew so many people hate it or thinks it tastes like soap. I’ll have to tell my daughter she isn’t alone.
I rarely use it because my DH doesn’t like it either, but he doesn’t say it tastes like soap and it’s one of those things that for me there is a fine line of it taking over.
I just read another article that says it has to do with a gene that controls part of your olfactory senses, and that between 4 and 14% of humans have it.
Try boiling them in chicken stock. When you madh use whole milk, butter and some garlic and onion powder. A good hand blender works wonders for getting the fibers to cream.
As for limas we mix them and corn then simmer them down in a rich pork gravy till done -great side dish.
In Scotland, mashed turnip is a traditional dish served with mashed potatoes and Haggis! They call it “Tatties and ‘Neeps” Being from Georgia, I treated some pals to turnip greens and they loved them. A farmer told me they feed the greens to the cows!
I’ve gotten free beet greens at the farmers’ market, because most people tell the farmer to cut off the greens and throw them away. Maybe things will change now because of the love for greens these days, although lots of people don’t recognize the beet tops as a food.
Both of my parents loved radishes, they would eat them as snacks.
I guess I did get my dislike for turnip roots from them because mom always gave the roots away to a friend of hers.
Her friend would slice them up like potatoes and can them and use them in all kinds of dishes.
We used to grow a mangel beets for fodder. They’d grow up to 20 pounds each and had a great sugar content, cows loved them in winter and smaller ones made great table fare.
My Dad used to take hot peppers and onions and slice them up and pour vinegar over them and let them sit for about an hour then he’d drain them and make a sandwich out of them and would eat radishes like chips. It was one of his favorite lunches.
I’m really not sure what kind of peppers he used to grow just for himself, they were a long, skinny red pepper that were extremely hot. We kids were always told not to pick Dad’s peppers without gloves on. He just always called them hot peppers.
My DH likes hot peppers so I’ve tried over the years to find pepper plants that looked like Dad’s and have never found them.
I’ve never been able to find them. I asked my mom one time after he passed away what kind of peppers he grew and she told me she wasn’t sure, that his grandmother gave them some pepper plants one year, but if she told them what kind they were she had forgotten.
Sigh…dreams of a bleak, cold (for us) January with a plate of steamimg cabbage, potatoes and pork. Large dish of borsht with a dollop of sour cream and a glass of cold vodka with a dash of lemon and a sprinkle of pepper. A Slavic tropical vacay.
Rats, ran out of reply space on mangel beets. Yup, grow them in intermountain west for sugar too, all stock (incl chickens) loved them.
International issues, national politics, miscellaneous mayhem, a few replies. Root vegetables come up and we’re running out of reply space left and right.
Thinking again of my mom, she loved nothing better than a good boiled dinner, either with ham, or with corned beef. I also like fresh pork, but I like it with sauerkraut. One thing I remember as a kid was the crocks of sauerkraut in the church kitchen for the Harvest Dinner (good German Lutherans).
I love candied apples, I’ve never made them myself, but a friend of mine makes them and always gives me a jar of them for my birthday and Christmas. I’ve never asked how she makes them because I’m the only one who will eat them, but I could sit down and eat the entire jar.
Around 1954, I was in the 5th grade in Waycross, GA. We had limas every day, I believe. I was so glad I was only in the 5th grade because 6th graders had to clean their plates every day. And, there was no way I could have eaten bare, naked lima beans. I think the Gov. gave them to the schools as some kind of subsidy. Blech!
And some of us love beets AND Lima beans. However, I share nyet’s fate. The husband does not like Lima beans, so I never bother to make them.
He loves pickled beets, but not my beet salad too much, which baffles me because it is just delicious, and kind of like picked beets. He probably would love the smoothies too. He has learned to drink them and not ask too many questions. 😀
My daughter loves them, but she’s the only one of us that do, so when she was younger I’d buy a 15 bean mix and cook them with ham and she’d pick out all the nasty beans for herself. lol
Both of my sons liked broccoli and cauliflower raw or cooked, the rest of us hated it. So I’d buy it for them, but it rarely got cooked because they’d eat all of it before I had a chance to cook it. They always called it green trees and white trees and would ask every time we went to the grocery store if they could have some green and white trees.
Good lord almighty. I had heard there were people in the world who live without regular helpings of pinto beans, mashed taters, squash relish, maters and cornbread, but I never knew one before. At least a time or two during summer we have all that, which is fairly frequent for us, but add fried squash and fried okra to it as well. I think it is my favorite meal all year.
We always fell back on beans, potatoes, and cornbread as our cheap meals to eat and keep th grocery bill down, but honestly my husband prefers no meat other than a little pork cooked in with the beans when we have it. It’s one of his favorite meals.
That would be me. No beans, none not hidden in other things, nope, no, 🙄and beets they seem to be some mutation of cranberries only in a fouler mood 😇.
Heck it took me until I was in my 20’s to try gravy and then I went vegetarian. Now I am back to eating some meat but not a lot.
I discovered that beef gave me stomach aches, and I never really liked dead pig, so I gave up both about 40 years go. So, I do eat chicken and fish. But, I still really like beans and cornbread.
I like cornbread 🙂 No fish (to my grandfathers great dismay as he was a fisherman 😦 ). I like chicken and beef occasionally but I just started eating meats again so I really don’t eat much of it. Chicken pecan and grape salad, Yummo!
I just grabbed this off the internet. I don’t use sour cream just regular mayonnaise. I also add about 2 teaspoons of poppy seeds and don’t monkey around with the nonsense of serving it in stemware on a bed of lettuce 🙄
I love fried okra. Pickled okra is disgusting and boiled okra is a slimy mess, but I can make a meal out of fresh green beans with new potatoes, fried okra, fried squash and sliced maters. I could almost be vegetarian in the summer if it wasn’t for the fact that I like pork in my green beans and like to fry my okra and squash in bacon fat.
Add in some fresh peas and fried fresh corn and it’s a feast fit for a king.
Summertime is also when I eat a lot of salad, fresh leaf lettuce from the garden with fresh maters, cucumbers, green onions, peas, boiled eggs and bacon.
I like salt, I eat it on everything, watermelon, cantaloupe, peaches, oranges. My DH always thought I was nuts until one day he got our watermelon slices mixed up and tried watermelon with salt and then he tried it with cantaloupe and loved it as well. Now he’s like me and can’t eat either without salt, but he says I’m still nuts to put salt on my oranges and peaches.
My ex was a Yankee and had never had fried okra. He said he would not eat anything that was filled with snot. I fried up some for him and I was lucky to get even a small helping of it. I couldn’t fry up enough at a time to get more than one small helping for myself when I made it for my son and my ex.
We start talking beans here and we’re gonna run outta space like we did in the root veggie post. Primary dried beans in our pantry are pinto (even som Anazazi), pink, red and black. We keep canned beans of various types for 3/4/5 bean salads, split peas and dall for soup but keep only frozen limas.
Put in okra yesterday, will replant weekly to ensure a full crop, if I don’t my Mississippi driver’s licence will be revoked. So far looking at about 150 feet of squashes. Many will be given away, some will be eaten by critters and some frozen but you can bet a lot will be roasted and eaten on the bach porch where we can spit the seeds out into the lawn.
We eat squash, mice eat seeds, cats eat mice, all part of that great circle of dining/life.
We had Great Northern beans a lot. I’m happy to say that since I reached adulthood not ONE Great Northern bean has graced my maw unless it was in someone else’s soup.
The Mrs. has been a picky eater since childhood and according to her, drove her mother crazy by refusing to eat almost everything she made.
Even today she will not touch pork or beef. She’ll cook and have lamb or rabbit once in awhile, but mostly birds or fish as far as meat goes.
My steak and kidney pie is something that makes the kitchen smell like a hog barn when it’s being prepared but comes out of the oven a dream. Czarina sort of cashed in when I was sautéing the vinegar out of the kidneys I’d cleaned but now just leaves the house until the product’s final. We also bulk-buy chicken gizzards, another guilty treat.
And there’s a universe of fipping sauces for them. We just put the e-frier outside between the lawn chairs, plug in and spider out the proceeds into the blotter bowl to cool. Cooler with the drinks, trash can for the paper leftovers – a redneck patio party.
LOL My mother refused to cook kidneys so my father decided to do it himself. I guess he didn’t get them clean enough and they stank so bad the whole family evacuated the house and was standing at the far edges of the property until he finally was able to smell it ( he had lost his sense of smell from smoking so much). He tried to feed them to the cat who proceeded to try to bury them, then he gave them to the hound dog from next door, who also tried to bury them, so he finally dug a hole in the grapefruit grove behind the house and buried them himself.
Grandmother taught me to cook them along with ‘lights’, sweetbreads and brains. After you trim the white stuff out of them you soak them overnight in vinegar water. When you cook them the smell’s something to behold, it rivals badly done asafoetida, but they end up tasting great.
The good thing about being a picky eater as a child was all my cousins wanted to sit with me at dinner time because they knew they could have almost anything they wanted off of my plate.
Though I did nearly drive my mom mad. I didn’t eat potatoes, beans, gravy, any seafood other than deep fried shrimp, ice cream, any pizza other than cheese pizza and the list goes on and on. My grandfather had a garden and I did enjoy fresh tomatoes. I existed mainly on cheese, grapes, burgers (ketchup only) and macaroni and cheese.
I have since expanded my food likings quite a bit 🙄.
I wasn’t born yet, but apparently one of my older brothers was a picky eater and the doctor told my mom to put food in front of him and not let him have what he wanted and when he got hungry he’d eat it. Mom took that to heart with all of us kids, so we either ate or went hungry.
My parents were not big into discipline. I wonder if I would have a larger palette if they had forced me to eat some things I didn’t like. I did try almost everything, not because I had to, but because I was curious. Some things I flat out refused to even try, duck blood soup at my cousins house, ox tail soup at home and any fish other than blue gill and salmon.
DUCK BLOOD SOUP!!! Soneonecwas dining at a Slavic home. I can remember it being made with fresh ingredients drawn from a duck thst had been tied from a clothesline. As for oxtail soup, I mske thatvregularly, I get the tails from a custom abattoir at a great price, the large number of immigrants from south of the border have driven their prices up in the stores to that of meat.
If you’d have said duck/chicken/pig bloid so I’d have guessed a Chinese household (love those soups too). Can’t find those in a can at Wally World.
My mom did that. Didn’t work with me. I am a picky eater. When I had my son, I made him taste everything on the table. But only one small bite. Then he was free to eat it or not. He learned to like everything. I don’t think there is anything he won’t try. I am very proud of myself. 🙂
I always made my kids eat at least one bite, but I never allowed them to have anything different than was on the table. If they couldn’t find something to eat from what they had to choose from then they knew they’d go hungry and no dessert.
That was exactly what I did. Or, at least the plan. Actually, my son ate almost anything I put in his plate. Sometimes I was surprised that he didn’t eat the plate, too. One of the few things he wouldn’t eat was sweet potatoes, since his dad told him they were terrible. When he was about 12, my mother brought some baked sweet potatoes over and sat one in front of him (not realizing he wouldn’t even try it) and I saw him make a face when she had her back turned. But, bless his heart, he was too polite to tell her, so he tried it and loved it. The really weird thing was I always knew he would like them because he absolutely loved pumpkin and I can’t tell the difference unless they are right there together.
I learned to make chicken liver pate. I add mushrooms, butter, garlic, thyme, black pepper, Onion, cream and a little brandy. Whisk it up in the blender ’til smooth, put it in a pretty dish and put in the fridge ’til cold. It’s great on toast or fancy crackers. This is one of my favorite dishes to whip up at Christmas!
I’ve not the biggest fan of beef liver, but my DH likes it so I cook it for him sometimes. I do like chicken liver though, my kids all hate it and have always told me it’s gross to eat catfish bait. lol
How about some beef tongue? If you can get over the fact that it’s a tongue, it’s some of the most tender and flavorful meat you can eat. My problem is I’m the one who has to cook it, so there’s no pretending I don’t know what it is and it makes it hard for me to eat it.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 12:05 am
How about she and her family are just trying to get home through an innercity neighborhood of the decendents of folks she risked her life to save?
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 12:12 am
Thread Winner!!!
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By Col.(R) Ken on April 21, 2016 at 6:45 am
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 7:37 am
And as Camelot was to the Kennedy Administration and Oh! Calcutta and Bloodcwere during the Nixon Adminstration (choreography and stagecraft by Kissinger) Hamilton appears to be for that of the first BLACK-black president.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:12 am
maybenot czar. Wasn’t Hamilton an anti-crony-capitalist?
Afternoon stellars!
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By BigMamaTEA on April 21, 2016 at 2:59 pm
But nothong beats a big song and dance finale…just imagine Barack and his cabinet, arm in arm, side shuffling stage left (where else but) as Hillary jiggles her way into the Offal Office. Or not, it is close to lunch for some…
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 3:03 pm
No thanks czar.
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By BigMamaTEA on April 21, 2016 at 3:12 pm
“Arrrrgh, we gonna be needin’ us a bigger bottle…!”
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 8:14 pm
Ta heck with Obama Keep Andy. Old Hickry.
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By Howie on April 21, 2016 at 8:32 am
Wondering when the New Orleans mayor will demand that the statue of Jackson in Javkson Square be taken down and replaced with a statue of Tubman put up in its place. Hmmmmm…Tubman Square…?
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:15 am
When residents at the Central Park Zoo were asked about their opinions on Cruz’s chances of winning the state’s primary, this pair said they didn’t want to stick their necks out but…
It’s late folks, the good stuff doesn’t come on until the last show.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 12:09 am
Suggested caption for the photo above ^^^ :
“Thursday Salutes the Previous Monday”
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By MaryfromMarin on April 21, 2016 at 12:44 am
Are they whistling Dixie?
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By Col.(R) Ken on April 21, 2016 at 6:40 am
If anyone is interested, the entire Trump family will be doing a Townhall tomorrow morning on the Today Show….
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 1:32 am
It’s the Queen’s Birthday today……
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By Col.(R) Ken on April 21, 2016 at 6:35 am
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 7:38 am
Honorable ex-Space Command analyst has joke about Haedonggong vodka being fuel that keeps No-dong missile up but cannot find honorable way to present it.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:24 am
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 7:48 am
Where’s Babs?
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:29 am
lil George says CHEEEEEESE!
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By ctdar on April 21, 2016 at 5:04 pm
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 8:19 am
Charlotte looks a bit like Grammy, huh? 😉
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 8:43 am
Several of them do. The homely is strong in that family. Probably because the queen and her husband are from the same family.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 10:34 am
Thank goodness, Cammilla the horseface was too old and long in the tooth, when she finally finagled a marriage to Prince Charles to have any that looked like her. In case it isn’t clear……………..I DON’T LIKE HER.
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 11:01 am
It must have been the “tampon” conversation that Charles had with her that wooed her.
ha! GROSS!
Attention gentlemen: NEVER tell a woman you would like to be her tampon! With rare exception, {ick!} that is NEVER romantic or sexy!
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By BigMamaTEA on April 21, 2016 at 3:02 pm
That whole episode was gross. Everything about their relationship is gross, in my opinion.
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 3:07 pm
Part of the Royal plan to economize, this way they can just use one pic for the Queen, Camilla and the mounts for the Royal House Guards.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:33 am
The first picture they all really look alike. I wonder if they have extra toes? lol
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 5:49 pm
Wait…I thought Elton John’s birthday was in March?
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:35 am
Mornin’ y’all!
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 7:33 am
Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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By lovely on April 21, 2016 at 10:10 am
Mornin’ Lovely!
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 10:12 am
Mornin’ Wee!
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 12:36 pm
Afternoon Michelle!
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 1:41 pm
https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/723026382108794880
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 7:35 am
😡 ARGGGG!
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 10:06 am
Obama showing hiw well he can tap dance on sand. Saudis agenda includes pushing back on the Iranians as the Iranians try to expand their influence (via thinly veiled military threats) in the Gulf while Obama’s agenda is to disengage and let Iran do what it wants to in tne area.
Saudis have hinted they might start selling off $750-billion in US assets but that’s largely a threat though it shows how hard they want soneone other than Captain Wrongway Peachfuzz at the international helm.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 12:38 pm
Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels)
( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Jack Daniels)
(B52)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra and F.D.R. in Hell!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Pastries for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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By nyetneetot on April 21, 2016 at 7:54 am
Oooooooh……. ZM would approve!! 😀
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 8:17 am
Good Morning Everyone ! I’ll take a plate just like the first one please ! 😀 After sitting on the side of the road and missing a doctors appointment Tuesday afternoon and being left with a truck to drive to work on Wednesday that has a combination of wiggle wiggle put it in park for reverse and 2 for drive and all that junk with out being told what was what I might need just a little something extra in the coffee this morning PLEASEEEEEEEE ! 😀 Now off to another exciting day. I hope everyone has a great day.
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By Sha on April 21, 2016 at 8:57 am
OOPs I forgot to say thank you for the breakfast, how rude of me. Sorry to eat and run but I so enjoy stopping by here even if I am always in a rush or can’t stay and chat.
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By Sha on April 21, 2016 at 9:02 am
I HATE days like that, Sha…… 😦
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 9:49 am
Two in a roll took a tole on me . I had to get a glass of wine after each day. I haven’t done that in a while. The wine really did help because I forgot what I was up set about when I started to relax. 🙂
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By Sha on April 22, 2016 at 7:47 am
Oh, dear. 😯
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 10:11 am
That amount of bacon will be enough to hold ZM off until the rest of the bacon is cooked. Good mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 10:07 am
Just saw an article that says a new study says bacon and processed meat makes you 18% more likely to develop stomach cancer. I don’t know why they’re always attacking our bacon.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 5:52 pm
It’s the stuff they use to cure the meat. You can buy smoked uncured bacon now, and it’s very good.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 5:58 pm
I don’t know what they call it now, but it used to be called salt peter. We never used it to make our bacon. We take our pigs to a butcher now and he doesn’t use it either.
We’ve never had a problem with out bacon, but we freeze it. Now once you thaw it out it only lasts a few days in the fridge, but we have him to put it in small enough packages that we can fry and eat all of it when we thaw it out.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 6:06 pm
Sodium nitrate, I think it is.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 6:21 pm
Potassium nitrate, innocuous soubding things like Prague powder, all various nitrates used to keep bacteria (read as libility) down and meats looking fresh and tasty. You make your meat products carefully and store them sensibly you shouldn’t have problems.
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By czarowniczy on April 22, 2016 at 12:49 am
Zactly, and if you fo your own you do not need nitrates to,preserve it, a good smoke job and proper storage will do it. You can also cut it as thickly as it designed to be cut and properly bake it.
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By czarowniczy on April 22, 2016 at 12:40 am
Well, isn’t it obvious. They want it all to themselves.
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 6:10 pm
Good morning Nyet 🙂
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By lovely on April 21, 2016 at 10:12 am
Mornin’!
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 12:38 pm
A great spread and
giraffes licking snowflakes
made me think of this. 😉
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By ImpeachEmAll on April 21, 2016 at 12:40 pm
Okay, truth be known
thought of this first. 😉
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By ImpeachEmAll on April 21, 2016 at 12:54 pm
How time flies.
There was a little
something special
about a Doctor Pepper. 😉
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By ImpeachEmAll on April 21, 2016 at 1:34 pm
Morning all, slept in but sarcasm-o-meter’s pegging in the high 80s. Late nite, Chinese food, good vodka (no, not North Korean) all feeds into active retiree ennui. Onward and upward to beet planting…
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:41 am
My favorite.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 11:57 am
The food or the beet planting?
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 12:12 pm
The food. My mother used to grow them in her garden just for me.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 12:40 pm
We love canned beets for borsht and Havard beets (shades of school lunch), pickled beets for snacking and beets for the sake of beets. Putting in a few feet of turnips for mashed turnips (boiled in chicken stock).
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 12:44 pm
I haven’t had Harvard beets in years. I always have beet pickles in the house (my mother used to make them for me; I should try that myself).
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 12:50 pm
Pickled beets are a cinch. I prefer to use apple cider vinegar and a bit more clove than some like but they are the easiest thing to put up.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 12:52 pm
I’m sure they are, I just haven’t made them myself. I make fruit preserves, and can tomatoes.
When my mother and my aunt lived together, my aunt always complained about the mess with cooking the beets. I suppose she had a point.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 12:54 pm
Don’t forget about
the beet greens. 😉
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By ImpeachEmAll on April 21, 2016 at 12:56 pm
Love them too.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 1:03 pm
I keep the beet greens too, and love them in my salads. I believe I read that they are more nutritious than the beets are.
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By Menagerie on April 21, 2016 at 4:58 pm
Beets are messy and they stain everything. I usually do pickle about a half dozen jars a year for myself, but I can’t say I really enjoy the mess.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 5:55 pm
YUK! Beets taste like dirt. I don’t care what you do to them.
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By BigMamaTEA on April 21, 2016 at 3:05 pm
I refused to eat them until about a year ago. How stupid can I be? I keep a beet salad (Tupelo Honey recipe) in my fridge almost always now and I slather my salads with it. I also dump it in my smoothies, partly for the flavor and nutrition, and partly because I like to make green smoothies but can’t quite get used to actually drinking something green. Beets turn any smoothie color to something that actually looks good.
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By Menagerie on April 21, 2016 at 4:54 pm
Gawd y’all……. beets….
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 12:08 pm
And turnips, can’t forget the turnips. This is a one-off Easternish European household, root vegetables in the summer garden and cabbage family veggies in the winter..
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 12:14 pm
I love turnip greens but not fond of the root. Almost everything you can plant I can find a way to like some part of, except radishes, I hate radishes.
My sister who always seems to show up when it gets time for the garden to start producing, always whines about salads without radishes and why don’t we plant radishes. I always tell her because we all hate radishes and she could grow her own nasty radishes.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 12:44 pm
Be generous, buy a medium sized pot and about 21 days before she shows up for a salad just sprinkle the seeds. If you really want to be hospitable and show how much you care you can just put the pot on the table next to her place and say “Enjoy!”.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 12:48 pm
I don’t like turnip roots much either. My dad used radishes as row markers, because they come up so fast, but my mother loved them.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 12:49 pm
I ate mashed turnips years before I ate mashed potatoes. First time I had mashed potatoes I thought they were bleached turnips. Takes a bit more work to do turnips (blessed be the hand blender) but I like them better.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 12:55 pm
Maybe I’ll give them another try. The only veg I really don’t like very much are lima beans, although I will eat them if they are put in front of me.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 1:02 pm
Don’t put them on my plate. I would politely push them to the side (or maybe take the juvenile approach and hide them in the napkin on my lap).
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 1:07 pm
Yum! Lima beans, slow cooked with ham, and homemade cornbread!
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By BigMamaTEA on April 21, 2016 at 3:07 pm
See? You hate beets, and I hate limas. I think it’s genetic – like cilantro (tastes like soap to me).
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 3:09 pm
I don’t like lima beans either.
Stella I think you and my daughter are related, she hates cilantro and before now she was the only one I ever heard say it tastes like soap.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 5:58 pm
I’ve read it is genetic (seriously).
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 5:59 pm
I have trouble eating chicken broth because it smells like armpits to me. 😯
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 6:17 pm
Homemade chicken broth smells nice.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 6:23 pm
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 6:00 pm
That is interesting, I never knew so many people hate it or thinks it tastes like soap. I’ll have to tell my daughter she isn’t alone.
I rarely use it because my DH doesn’t like it either, but he doesn’t say it tastes like soap and it’s one of those things that for me there is a fine line of it taking over.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 6:11 pm
I just read another article that says it has to do with a gene that controls part of your olfactory senses, and that between 4 and 14% of humans have it.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 6:22 pm
Try boiling them in chicken stock. When you madh use whole milk, butter and some garlic and onion powder. A good hand blender works wonders for getting the fibers to cream.
As for limas we mix them and corn then simmer them down in a rich pork gravy till done -great side dish.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 1:13 pm
I dislike the texture of lima beans.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 1:16 pm
In Scotland, mashed turnip is a traditional dish served with mashed potatoes and Haggis! They call it “Tatties and ‘Neeps” Being from Georgia, I treated some pals to turnip greens and they loved them. A farmer told me they feed the greens to the cows!
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By Jacqueline Taylor Robson on April 21, 2016 at 1:59 pm
I’ve gotten free beet greens at the farmers’ market, because most people tell the farmer to cut off the greens and throw them away. Maybe things will change now because of the love for greens these days, although lots of people don’t recognize the beet tops as a food.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 2:03 pm
I’m with BMT. Give me the lima beans all day. Y’all can have her beet smoothies all to yerselves. 😳
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By texan59 on April 21, 2016 at 5:36 pm
I have a friend who swore I would like her mashed turnips made similar to yours, sorry I still hated them.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Both of my parents loved radishes, they would eat them as snacks.
I guess I did get my dislike for turnip roots from them because mom always gave the roots away to a friend of hers.
Her friend would slice them up like potatoes and can them and use them in all kinds of dishes.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 2:04 pm
My mother made sandwiches with sliced radishes and butter. Same with onions.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 2:05 pm
We used to grow a mangel beets for fodder. They’d grow up to 20 pounds each and had a great sugar content, cows loved them in winter and smaller ones made great table fare.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 2:10 pm
Are they the same ones used for beet sugar? They grow lots of those in Michigan.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 2:10 pm
My Dad used to take hot peppers and onions and slice them up and pour vinegar over them and let them sit for about an hour then he’d drain them and make a sandwich out of them and would eat radishes like chips. It was one of his favorite lunches.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 2:14 pm
michellc, I guess when you’re really hungry; you’ll eat anything!
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By BigMamaTEA on April 21, 2016 at 3:09 pm
I don’t know even if I was starving I could eat his pepper and onion sandwich. I’d just eat the bread. lol
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 5:45 pm
Yum, gonna try that. What kind of peppers or didn’t that matter?
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 8:05 pm
I’m really not sure what kind of peppers he used to grow just for himself, they were a long, skinny red pepper that were extremely hot. We kids were always told not to pick Dad’s peppers without gloves on. He just always called them hot peppers.
My DH likes hot peppers so I’ve tried over the years to find pepper plants that looked like Dad’s and have never found them.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 9:37 pm
Cayanne?
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By BigMamaTEA on April 21, 2016 at 10:17 pm
Nope.
I’ve never been able to find them. I asked my mom one time after he passed away what kind of peppers he grew and she told me she wasn’t sure, that his grandmother gave them some pepper plants one year, but if she told them what kind they were she had forgotten.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 11:31 pm
We found through trial and … error… that my wife is allergic to turnips. I like them so it is unfortunate to me.
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By nyetneetot on April 21, 2016 at 6:03 pm
Try a dambeet, I guess. Geeeeeez, y’all…….
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 8:26 pm
Sigh…dreams of a bleak, cold (for us) January with a plate of steamimg cabbage, potatoes and pork. Large dish of borsht with a dollop of sour cream and a glass of cold vodka with a dash of lemon and a sprinkle of pepper. A Slavic tropical vacay.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 12:20 pm
Yum. I like beet greens too (with balsamic vinegar).
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 12:41 pm
Yes, quite good, though I prefer the beets grown for their tops vice their roots. In either case we like greens cooked down with onion, bacon and ham.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 12:50 pm
Rats, ran out of reply space on mangel beets. Yup, grow them in intermountain west for sugar too, all stock (incl chickens) loved them.
International issues, national politics, miscellaneous mayhem, a few replies. Root vegetables come up and we’re running out of reply space left and right.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 2:15 pm
Thinking again of my mom, she loved nothing better than a good boiled dinner, either with ham, or with corned beef. I also like fresh pork, but I like it with sauerkraut. One thing I remember as a kid was the crocks of sauerkraut in the church kitchen for the Harvest Dinner (good German Lutherans).
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 12:59 pm
And the juniper berries, don’t forget about the juniper berries…
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 1:09 pm
I love sauerkraut. I love cabbage period, plain ol’ boiled cabbage, cabbage soup, cabbage rolls, cole slaw.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 6:15 pm
I love pickled beets, the only way I’ll eat them.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 12:39 pm
I love those too.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 12:41 pm
Also roast beets, made into a salad with onions, vinegar and oil.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 12:42 pm
I can only eat them pickled.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 12:45 pm
Or, you could have them candied like I did when I got a drop of liquid on the recipe and misread 2 cups instead of 1/2 cup of sugar.
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 12:51 pm
I love candied apples, I’ve never made them myself, but a friend of mine makes them and always gives me a jar of them for my birthday and Christmas. I’ve never asked how she makes them because I’m the only one who will eat them, but I could sit down and eat the entire jar.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 2:08 pm
NO BEETS!
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By BigMamaTEA on April 21, 2016 at 3:09 pm
Thank God. Plus, after reading this thread, lima beans (butter beans down heah) are one ‘a my personal favorites.
So there, y’all.
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 8:29 pm
Around 1954, I was in the 5th grade in Waycross, GA. We had limas every day, I believe. I was so glad I was only in the 5th grade because 6th graders had to clean their plates every day. And, there was no way I could have eaten bare, naked lima beans. I think the Gov. gave them to the schools as some kind of subsidy. Blech!
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 8:43 pm
No ham??? Thass how I cook ’em.
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 9:28 pm
We used to have beets fried with potatoes in butter. Also very good (but red).
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 1:04 pm
There’s is a restaurant here that pickles boiled eggs in beet juice, and serves them “pink”
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By BigMamaTEA on April 21, 2016 at 3:11 pm
The artist known as Prince has died at 57.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-dead-at-57/
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 1:18 pm
In other news, Keith Richards is still fine.
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 3:57 pm
Well, don’t you preserve things by pickling them? He looks pretty pickled to me. 😯
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 4:01 pm
Took the sarcastic truth right outta my mouth.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 8:12 pm
Pickeled?? He’s mummified.
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 9:29 pm
I really love the Dear Kitten videos from Friskies. This one is no exception.
http://blog.theanimalrescuesite.com/dear-kitten-regarding-dog/?utm_source=ars-arsfan&utm_medium=social-fbpc&utm_term=ARSFAN-PC-dear-kitten-regarding-dog-OpCPM-KWanimals-W40&utm_campaign=PC-dear-kitten-regarding-dog&origin=social_ars_arsfan_PC_dear-kitten-regarding-dog
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By shiloh1973 on April 21, 2016 at 4:39 pm
LOL That is soooo funny.
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 8:26 pm
I do declare it looks like we done run outta space fo’ re-plies. It’s alookin’ like we need a new thread for root vegetable and legume responses.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 8:19 pm
Turnips and rutabagas. Mmm.
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By Menagerie on April 21, 2016 at 9:16 pm
I would rather talk about cauliflower and broccoli. Especially with cheese.
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 9:41 pm
Broccoli and asparagus are my favorites. I also like anything in the cabbage family, including brussels sprouts, but I prefer them roasted.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 9:50 pm
Peas and lima beans. Yum!!!!
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By texan59 on April 21, 2016 at 10:16 pm
I like peas and corn too. No limas.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 10:58 pm
A lot more flavor than those poor bland spuds we get at the store…and thry go so well with fresh-grated horseradish
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:13 pm
OK. SOME of us like lima (butter) beans. SOME of us will not give a beet the time ‘a day.
Discuss.
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By WeeWeed on April 21, 2016 at 8:34 pm
And some of us love beets AND Lima beans. However, I share nyet’s fate. The husband does not like Lima beans, so I never bother to make them.
He loves pickled beets, but not my beet salad too much, which baffles me because it is just delicious, and kind of like picked beets. He probably would love the smoothies too. He has learned to drink them and not ask too many questions. 😀
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By Menagerie on April 21, 2016 at 9:15 pm
My daughter loves them, but she’s the only one of us that do, so when she was younger I’d buy a 15 bean mix and cook them with ham and she’d pick out all the nasty beans for herself. lol
Both of my sons liked broccoli and cauliflower raw or cooked, the rest of us hated it. So I’d buy it for them, but it rarely got cooked because they’d eat all of it before I had a chance to cook it. They always called it green trees and white trees and would ask every time we went to the grocery store if they could have some green and white trees.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 9:52 pm
LOL
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 9:58 pm
LOVE green and white trees cooked together..
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By WeeWeed on April 22, 2016 at 11:43 pm
I do not like lima beans or beets. In fact I don’t like any beans 😕 not in a boat not with a goat, and never with a Canadian.
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By lovely on April 21, 2016 at 10:16 pm
Good lord almighty. I had heard there were people in the world who live without regular helpings of pinto beans, mashed taters, squash relish, maters and cornbread, but I never knew one before. At least a time or two during summer we have all that, which is fairly frequent for us, but add fried squash and fried okra to it as well. I think it is my favorite meal all year.
We always fell back on beans, potatoes, and cornbread as our cheap meals to eat and keep th grocery bill down, but honestly my husband prefers no meat other than a little pork cooked in with the beans when we have it. It’s one of his favorite meals.
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By Menagerie on April 21, 2016 at 10:45 pm
That would be me. No beans, none not hidden in other things, nope, no, 🙄and beets they seem to be some mutation of cranberries only in a fouler mood 😇.
Heck it took me until I was in my 20’s to try gravy and then I went vegetarian. Now I am back to eating some meat but not a lot.
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By lovely on April 21, 2016 at 10:48 pm
I discovered that beef gave me stomach aches, and I never really liked dead pig, so I gave up both about 40 years go. So, I do eat chicken and fish. But, I still really like beans and cornbread.
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 11:56 pm
I like cornbread 🙂 No fish (to my grandfathers great dismay as he was a fisherman 😦 ). I like chicken and beef occasionally but I just started eating meats again so I really don’t eat much of it. Chicken pecan and grape salad, Yummo!
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By lovely on April 22, 2016 at 12:02 am
Recipe, please.
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 12:23 am
I just grabbed this off the internet. I don’t use sour cream just regular mayonnaise. I also add about 2 teaspoons of poppy seeds and don’t monkey around with the nonsense of serving it in stemware on a bed of lettuce 🙄
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-salad-with-grapes-pecans
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By lovely on April 22, 2016 at 12:30 am
LOL It will be lucky to be even served in a plate.
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 12:41 am
I adore potatoes, any way you cook them. The rest of those things on your list are good too – except maybe the okra.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 11:00 pm
I love fried okra. Pickled okra is disgusting and boiled okra is a slimy mess, but I can make a meal out of fresh green beans with new potatoes, fried okra, fried squash and sliced maters. I could almost be vegetarian in the summer if it wasn’t for the fact that I like pork in my green beans and like to fry my okra and squash in bacon fat.
Add in some fresh peas and fried fresh corn and it’s a feast fit for a king.
Summertime is also when I eat a lot of salad, fresh leaf lettuce from the garden with fresh maters, cucumbers, green onions, peas, boiled eggs and bacon.
I’m making myself hungry.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 11:46 pm
One of my favorite Summer time treats is a fresh cucumber cut into spears, squeeze on some lemon and sprinkle with sugar.
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By lovely on April 21, 2016 at 11:53 pm
I like to eat it with just a little salt.
I like salt, I eat it on everything, watermelon, cantaloupe, peaches, oranges. My DH always thought I was nuts until one day he got our watermelon slices mixed up and tried watermelon with salt and then he tried it with cantaloupe and loved it as well. Now he’s like me and can’t eat either without salt, but he says I’m still nuts to put salt on my oranges and peaches.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 11:59 pm
I like cucumbers with salt. I haven’t tried it on watermelon, sounds odd but I’ll give it a try. I don’t like cantaloupe 🙄
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By lovely on April 22, 2016 at 12:05 am
One of my favorite salads is cherry tomatoes, sweet onions, salt and olive oil.
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By lovely on April 22, 2016 at 12:09 am
I always plant cherry tomatoes in containers so I can be walking into the house and stop along the way and eat some cherry tomatoes.
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By michellc on April 22, 2016 at 12:13 am
Mmm.. fresh off the vine.
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By lovely on April 22, 2016 at 12:14 am
Sounds like my dad, but he put sugar on his tomatoes.
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By stella on April 22, 2016 at 7:12 am
I do sliced onion, cukes and whatever else you may want with water/vinegar, 3/4 – 1/4. Chilled. Shaken, not stirred.
Oh, wait…..
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By WeeWeed on April 22, 2016 at 11:49 pm
I’m comin’ to eat at your house.
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 12:03 am
Well we do always have to have some sort of meat on the table as well, ’cause the DH whines if we don’t.
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By michellc on April 22, 2016 at 12:08 am
And, you have wines, too? 🙂 Oh, wait, you said whines. 😦
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 12:26 am
My ex was a Yankee and had never had fried okra. He said he would not eat anything that was filled with snot. I fried up some for him and I was lucky to get even a small helping of it. I couldn’t fry up enough at a time to get more than one small helping for myself when I made it for my son and my ex.
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 12:01 am
Okra, only fried or pickled. Once a friend served me Okra which had been boiled. Looked like snot-goo all over my plate. Yuk!
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By BigMamaTEA on April 22, 2016 at 1:25 am
We start talking beans here and we’re gonna run outta space like we did in the root veggie post. Primary dried beans in our pantry are pinto (even som Anazazi), pink, red and black. We keep canned beans of various types for 3/4/5 bean salads, split peas and dall for soup but keep only frozen limas.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:28 pm
I love those Anasazi – buttery taste.
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By WeeWeed on April 22, 2016 at 11:51 pm
Put in okra yesterday, will replant weekly to ensure a full crop, if I don’t my Mississippi driver’s licence will be revoked. So far looking at about 150 feet of squashes. Many will be given away, some will be eaten by critters and some frozen but you can bet a lot will be roasted and eaten on the bach porch where we can spit the seeds out into the lawn.
We eat squash, mice eat seeds, cats eat mice, all part of that great circle of dining/life.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:34 pm
Growing up, we had pinto beans and cornbread at least three times a week.
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By auscitizenmom on April 21, 2016 at 11:49 pm
We had Great Northern beans a lot. I’m happy to say that since I reached adulthood not ONE Great Northern bean has graced my maw unless it was in someone else’s soup.
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By WeeWeed on April 22, 2016 at 11:54 pm
Enough with teh vegan lifestyle. I’ma hungry for some liver and onions with mashed potato’s. Like a fat kid on an ice cream cone, I am. 😆
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By texan59 on April 21, 2016 at 10:17 pm
I am trying very hard not to order room service.
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By nyetneetot on April 21, 2016 at 10:22 pm
Ahhhhh yessssssssss. I do mine with bacon and sprinkle lightly with sazon comleta. Drippings make a great gravy too.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:17 pm
Now THAT is disgusting nyet!
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By BigMamaTEA on April 22, 2016 at 1:20 am
Okay, y’all finally got something I hate. I cook it very rarely, but I do fix it for my husband.
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By Menagerie on April 21, 2016 at 10:46 pm
Have been eatin’ it since I was an ankle-biter. My MIL would call the house every time she made it. Almost as good as my momma made. Almost. 😉
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By texan59 on April 21, 2016 at 10:52 pm
I eat it, but I never cook it.
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By stella on April 21, 2016 at 11:01 pm
The Mrs. has been a picky eater since childhood and according to her, drove her mother crazy by refusing to eat almost everything she made.
Even today she will not touch pork or beef. She’ll cook and have lamb or rabbit once in awhile, but mostly birds or fish as far as meat goes.
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By nyetneetot on April 21, 2016 at 11:15 pm
My steak and kidney pie is something that makes the kitchen smell like a hog barn when it’s being prepared but comes out of the oven a dream. Czarina sort of cashed in when I was sautéing the vinegar out of the kidneys I’d cleaned but now just leaves the house until the product’s final. We also bulk-buy chicken gizzards, another guilty treat.
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:23 pm
Years ago, before “hot wings” became a thing, I remember ordering a basket of deep fried chicken gizzards and a pitcher of beer.
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By nyetneetot on April 21, 2016 at 11:26 pm
And there’s a universe of fipping sauces for them. We just put the e-frier outside between the lawn chairs, plug in and spider out the proceeds into the blotter bowl to cool. Cooler with the drinks, trash can for the paper leftovers – a redneck patio party.
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By czarowniczy on April 22, 2016 at 12:07 am
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By BigMamaTEA on April 22, 2016 at 1:35 am
LOL My mother refused to cook kidneys so my father decided to do it himself. I guess he didn’t get them clean enough and they stank so bad the whole family evacuated the house and was standing at the far edges of the property until he finally was able to smell it ( he had lost his sense of smell from smoking so much). He tried to feed them to the cat who proceeded to try to bury them, then he gave them to the hound dog from next door, who also tried to bury them, so he finally dug a hole in the grapefruit grove behind the house and buried them himself.
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 12:12 am
Grandmother taught me to cook them along with ‘lights’, sweetbreads and brains. After you trim the white stuff out of them you soak them overnight in vinegar water. When you cook them the smell’s something to behold, it rivals badly done asafoetida, but they end up tasting great.
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By czarowniczy on April 22, 2016 at 12:33 am
I’ll take your word for it. {wretch}
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 12:44 am
My dad cooked brains (which I ate when I was little) and also tongue. We never had kidneys or sweetbreads, as far as I remember.
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By stella on April 22, 2016 at 7:29 am
The good thing about being a picky eater as a child was all my cousins wanted to sit with me at dinner time because they knew they could have almost anything they wanted off of my plate.
Though I did nearly drive my mom mad. I didn’t eat potatoes, beans, gravy, any seafood other than deep fried shrimp, ice cream, any pizza other than cheese pizza and the list goes on and on. My grandfather had a garden and I did enjoy fresh tomatoes. I existed mainly on cheese, grapes, burgers (ketchup only) and macaroni and cheese.
I have since expanded my food likings quite a bit 🙄.
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By lovely on April 21, 2016 at 11:41 pm
I wasn’t born yet, but apparently one of my older brothers was a picky eater and the doctor told my mom to put food in front of him and not let him have what he wanted and when he got hungry he’d eat it. Mom took that to heart with all of us kids, so we either ate or went hungry.
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By michellc on April 22, 2016 at 12:16 am
My parents were not big into discipline. I wonder if I would have a larger palette if they had forced me to eat some things I didn’t like. I did try almost everything, not because I had to, but because I was curious. Some things I flat out refused to even try, duck blood soup at my cousins house, ox tail soup at home and any fish other than blue gill and salmon.
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By lovely on April 22, 2016 at 12:24 am
DUCK BLOOD SOUP!!! Soneonecwas dining at a Slavic home. I can remember it being made with fresh ingredients drawn from a duck thst had been tied from a clothesline. As for oxtail soup, I mske thatvregularly, I get the tails from a custom abattoir at a great price, the large number of immigrants from south of the border have driven their prices up in the stores to that of meat.
If you’d have said duck/chicken/pig bloid so I’d have guessed a Chinese household (love those soups too). Can’t find those in a can at Wally World.
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By czarowniczy on April 22, 2016 at 10:03 pm
Polish relatives.
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By lovely on April 22, 2016 at 10:39 pm
Polish neighbors.
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By stella on April 22, 2016 at 10:47 pm
Do I know my Slavic cuisine or not? It flows through my veins…
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By czarowniczy on April 22, 2016 at 11:29 pm
My mom did that. Didn’t work with me. I am a picky eater. When I had my son, I made him taste everything on the table. But only one small bite. Then he was free to eat it or not. He learned to like everything. I don’t think there is anything he won’t try. I am very proud of myself. 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 12:37 am
I always made my kids eat at least one bite, but I never allowed them to have anything different than was on the table. If they couldn’t find something to eat from what they had to choose from then they knew they’d go hungry and no dessert.
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By michellc on April 22, 2016 at 5:39 pm
That was exactly what I did. Or, at least the plan. Actually, my son ate almost anything I put in his plate. Sometimes I was surprised that he didn’t eat the plate, too. One of the few things he wouldn’t eat was sweet potatoes, since his dad told him they were terrible. When he was about 12, my mother brought some baked sweet potatoes over and sat one in front of him (not realizing he wouldn’t even try it) and I saw him make a face when she had her back turned. But, bless his heart, he was too polite to tell her, so he tried it and loved it. The really weird thing was I always knew he would like them because he absolutely loved pumpkin and I can’t tell the difference unless they are right there together.
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 7:24 pm
I have to disagree about pumpkin, it makes me want to puke, but I love sweet potatoes.
I always gag when I make pumpkin pies and tell my family that is how much I love them. 🙂
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By michellc on April 22, 2016 at 9:59 pm
My hubbie likes that too. And chicken livers. I refuse to even cook them. He goes out to some dive to get his fix.
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By BigMamaTEA on April 22, 2016 at 1:22 am
I learned to make chicken liver pate. I add mushrooms, butter, garlic, thyme, black pepper, Onion, cream and a little brandy. Whisk it up in the blender ’til smooth, put it in a pretty dish and put in the fridge ’til cold. It’s great on toast or fancy crackers. This is one of my favorite dishes to whip up at Christmas!
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By Jacqueline Taylor Robson on April 22, 2016 at 3:52 pm
I’ve not the biggest fan of beef liver, but my DH likes it so I cook it for him sometimes. I do like chicken liver though, my kids all hate it and have always told me it’s gross to eat catfish bait. lol
How about some beef tongue? If you can get over the fact that it’s a tongue, it’s some of the most tender and flavorful meat you can eat. My problem is I’m the one who has to cook it, so there’s no pretending I don’t know what it is and it makes it hard for me to eat it.
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By michellc on April 21, 2016 at 11:54 pm
Boiled, thinly dliced and served with a horseradish cream sauce. Maybe a touch of dill.
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By czarowniczy on April 22, 2016 at 12:09 am
O.M.G. Youse ‘n teh Momma woulda got on well. I’m divorcing all y’all liver bastages…….
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By WeeWeed on April 22, 2016 at 11:58 pm
😯 😆
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By texan59 on April 23, 2016 at 12:16 am
On a happy note our Farmers Market opens the first Saturday in May.
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By lovely on April 21, 2016 at 10:34 pm
I’m bet I know whose house this pic WASN’T taken in…
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:24 pm
But it was taken at our Farmer’s Market 🙂
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By lovely on April 21, 2016 at 11:26 pm
A few posts back a radish-hater as outed here
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By czarowniczy on April 21, 2016 at 11:29 pm
Oh, no. A radish hater. Oh, where is my safe space? 😯
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 12:16 am
Beets me, but I’m sure one will turnip.
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By czarowniczy on April 22, 2016 at 12:24 am
LOL
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 10:25 am
Yep, those things don’t get in my house or my garden.
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By michellc on April 22, 2016 at 12:01 am
Annnnnnndddd…tbe guilty party surfaces,
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By czarowniczy on April 22, 2016 at 12:10 am
I remembered reading that someone was not a fan but I didn’t remember who. I’m not a fan either but I thought they made for a pretty picture 🙂
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By lovely on April 22, 2016 at 12:13 am
No complaints from me, I love them, root for them every chance I get.
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By czarowniczy on April 22, 2016 at 12:25 am
A RADISH BIGOT!!
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 12:30 am
Truly, where is the CRS when you need them!?
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By czarowniczy on April 22, 2016 at 12:35 am
I need my safe space. 😦
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 12:47 am
Sorty, it’s being used to rehab failed rappers.
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By czarowniczy on April 22, 2016 at 12:51 am
Oh, noes!!
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By auscitizenmom on April 22, 2016 at 12:57 am
http://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=OIP.M66a3409f2c923478d61be5d7c7537253o0&w=300&h=267&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0&r=0
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By Jacqueline Taylor Robson on April 22, 2016 at 3:23 pm
I always have trouble posting photos! Sometimes it works, and others, well…
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By Jacqueline Taylor Robson on April 22, 2016 at 3:24 pm
Very Cool!
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By stella on April 22, 2016 at 11:48 pm