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Mabelline

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  1. elswinger, somehow I am on Red Robin's opinion-maker's poll, and although I get all kinds of free coupons from them, I've never sent their polls back, and in Billings, at least, it's just a new millenium fern joint for people too stupid to go to the good pubs (Pug Mahon's, Crystal Lounge).

  2. Although not a drinker...give me some good gin before, and some good scotch after; I have one thing I found interesting to add. I've been going through some pioneer cookbooks from pre-statehood Montana, and I came across something INTRIGUING....a former pioneer gram with an Anglo-Pilgrim bloodline said, almost as an aside, that drinks, pastries, and mincemeats that called for apple cider at that time always meant "boiled cider", a 6 to 1 reduction. It just sounded so good that I wonder if I might have been hit with a stupid stick. I am going to try it out, but I think apple-rich folks might give it a whirl.

  3. I would love to round up all those folks, place them in a well-stocked preserve, and make them eat like our forbearers. After 1/2 a year, doncha reckon they'd have a different set of bitchs? For there are people who I firmly believe JUST HAVE to gripe. I'll bet cash money that when them Plymouth Rock newcomers were starvin' there were people in the bunch whinin', "CORN, I'm not eatin' CORN, you grew it next to a dead, smelly fish!" :biggrin:

  4. Brooks- I've got the same Rival 'grease gun' and Ladybird Johnson's cheese straw recipe.

    Does anyone remember when the fancy relish tools were sold, or given away? Between my sister and our cousins, we stayed out of everyones' hair turning radishes into spirals 1/2 a foot long, cherry tomatoes and 'cherry bomb' pickled peppers into roses, and who knows what else.

    I am going to try that receipt, Jaymes. Sounds pretty good.

    Also had the watermelon pickles, pickled peaches,corn relish and chow chow, which is good with dressing if it's the hot stuff.

    We always had the Lipton soup onion mix dip for the vegs. I don't know if that was tradition as much as my auntie couldn't make much else. She was always dish crew, and gram didn't completely trust her with that. :smile:

  5. Our Hardee's up here have a much nicer burger, although I can still cut it in 1/2s twice. It's the sourdough burger.

    I like the taste of Hardee's meat because it's good ole meat with a nongreasy taste...somewhere in Montana dot coms or orgs there's a Hardee spot naming how much state-produced beef they use, and the amount of Angus they use.

    We raise Angus, so that's the reason I went diving for the info. Mebbe somebody more savvy then me can call it up.

  6. When you do it, let me know...I will keep my eyes peeled for CourtTV updates about the riot in steeltown!

    My PC SIL is always onto me about aren't I afraid I'll catch something down at the Rescue Mission? Once I finally said, "Whatcha think I'll catch? Bigger blood clots?" If she and the clan from Hell ever did something for other people, I fear she would have an attack of do-gooderism so bad I'd have to take her to the rez for a real reality check. Otherwise, I'd have to hear about it forever.

    She has this one little habit that pisses me so bad sometimes that I really have to clamp my yap---in the course of bad-mouthing the "drunken Indians" in the downtown, she will pause to say, "Oh, I didn't mean like you," as if I'm supposed to be grateful for her kind consideration. I am always so astounded from it that I cannot think of a comeback that would actually shut her up. Maybe one of our wittists would help me out.

  7. We here in MT seem to have the hardest time with noncommercial donations in the summer. Please don't let anyone think I was lightweighting the yearround plight of foodbanks, it's just that this is our easiest time of year. This morning on our am news, the 'official' fooddrive started, and in one hours' time at one of the Albertson's, they garnered 28 turkeys.

    One of our local dentists is offering a teeth whitening for 50 bucks if you bring a turkey to the foodbank truck.

    At least we here have gotten over our near disaster from last year when some scum broke into the office at the foodbank, and when they only found 12 bucks in petty cash, set fire to the office. This a month before TDay.

  8. NVNVGirl, thanks! That is precisely the one I was thinking about. Ours was yellow as well, and my mom would get so mad that we got to all the flowers, so that there weren't ever any seeds to pickle.

    One of our not-so-successful forages were thinking that four o' clocks would taste as good as the honeysuckles or 'sturtiums. Blech...

  9. Judith, those pictures are gorgeous, girlfriend! I've never seen red fruits, either, but the yellow ones that I've always known as maypop are succulent and worth feudin' over when we were younger. They grew at our place in the desert in Az., as well, so I don't see why there should be any problem with Palm Desert.

    We were quite the little scavenger eaters as sprouts. I remember my mom being quite "perturbed" with us, as we denuded the honeysuckle and nasturtium flowers to nip the ends and slurp nectar. That reminds me of a particularly enormous climbing nasturtium we had to shade our kitchen porch entry. I wonder if anyone grows any of the climbing ones? :rolleyes:

  10. Sometimes helping the less fortunate has a taint that really disillusions a person, from those like you mention, woodburner. I agree, it's a pitiful SOB that would make use of things given for the folks who could really use and appreciate this once or twice a year thing; I get through by thinking that what goes around, does indeed come back around. And they better duck when it does, or that appearance may end up being a rehearsal for future meals.

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