Dr. Funk

It's Svilar's and it is in Hudson. First time there was in July of 1980 when the lady who managed the Thunderbird Motel in Riverton paid off her gambling debt. Great place - where else do you get cabbage rolls as a side to a great steak? From here it's about 200 miles. I stopped there on my way back from Thermopolis last fall. My wife couldn't believe the place.

I'm jealous - I don't have a Costco within 200 miles.

Did you add the extra water or just go with the wine and stock? ← Just the wine and stock

Been there. My sister lived in Rocky Ford for years. You'll find the trucks from Pueblo to Lamar, but the one in RF is the best.

Beautiful pics GG Mora. Those pattypan squash are just beautiful. And the cauliflower is so big! Also, I've never had delicata squash and when someone gives me seed, I give it away. How does it taste and what do you use it for? ← Delicata is probably the finest winter squash I've ever tasted. Just cut it in half, scoop out the seeds and bake it as you would an acorn squash. The flesh is orange, has no stringiness, is never watery and is incredibly sweet. No brown sugar needed, just a little butter. Try it, you'll never eat an acorn squash again. When I was farming I grew this and Kabocha and sold every one either at the farmer's market or the local organic produce distributor for a premium price.

I covered the pot and it was done in two hours - the gravy was perfect.

And here I thought Sonic drive-ins had cornered the market on Tater Tots. I made the BB and put baby new potatoes in it - great stuff!

My father spent most of WWII in Newfoundland at an Army Air Corps refueling station and he said that all there was in Newfoundland was "fishin', fightin' and f**kin' and in the winter there is no fishin' ".

I've eaten at taco trucks in both OKC and Tulsa - keep looking.

And those cranberries in all probability, came from New Jersey. I spent my high school years drinking Coors and then I discovered beer.

I first encountered dried shrimp as a snack with beer in Mexico in 1966 (specifically - Guaymas). I love the stuff. For years, the only place I could find them in the Denver area was in the Asian markets and they were much more expensive than the Mexican ones. Actually, they go better with Mexican beer than the domestic stuff.

I like to put mine on the grill when I'm smoking chicken. Makes a great side.

A friend who started growing the mini-greens about 16 years ago refers to Iceberg as the polyester of lettuces. When we went to a salad bar one time on a road trip, guess what he ate? You got it, he missed the crunch. As he said, Iceberg is just an excuse for eating Ranch dressing.

Odd - my sister is a Rabbi and she says there is no ban on hunting as long as you're going to eat the game and it falls within the rules - i.e. - no wild boar, rabbit, squirrel etc. Most birds are OK - ducks, geese, turkeys, grouse, pheasant, quail etc., but no crows, magpies or other omnivores or any raptors.

Interesting thought - but now I'm going to end up dreaming about it and my wife's going to question me tomorrow morning.

My wife gets Snickers and Heath miniatures and any leftovers go into the freezer. There's nothing like a frozen Snickers.

Well, I just looked through 4 Justin Wilson cookbooks, found 13 gumbo recipes and only 4 contained okra. Does that answer your question?

Go for it! On Amazon it's only about $28 including shipping.

To StudentChefEclipse - in the 25 years I've been making gumbo, I have yet to use any okra. When I lived in LA, I encountered only a few people who used it in their gumbo and those who did, sauteed it before adding to the pot to get rid of the slime. If you go into the average small-town cafe in LA, unless the menu specifies that there is okra in the gumbo, there won't be any. It is not necessary to have okra to have gumbo.

A big bowl of green chile and a couple of warm flour tortillas. Of course you also have to have a couple beers to go with this.

2 hamburgers with extra onions at the Twinburger in Boulder. CO (now long gone). Years later, my father told me he could always tell when I'd been drinking 'cause I reeked of onions. He never said anything to me, he just left a note for my mother to wake me up extra early the next morning for some sort of chore. I always wondered why the lawn had to be mowed at 7AM.

I used to live in an area where I had 3 supermarkets within a 1 mile radius. I stopped at one of them almost every day. Now, I have 50 miles to drive to any type of grocery store so I'm pretty much limited to once a week. It helps to have 2 freezers and a large walk-in pantry. We also go to Denver about three times a year and while we're there we go to The International Market which has a huge selection of bulk herbs and spices at great prices, rice for cheap, cous-cous, olive oil at less than half of what you pay at the supermarket and all kinds of wonderful middle-eastern foods. By the way Snowangel, how do you have farmer's markets in the twin cities 7 days a week, unless it's just in the summer?

I put water in my drip pan. Makes it come out moist and tender after 6 hours.

I've got a marmot too. It spent one winter under my back deck, but since then it has discovered the unused chicken coop and has tunneled into it. It's not hurting anything so I leave it alone.

The fat doe is now in the freezer, the tomatoes are canned and life is good. You have to remember, Carrot Top, that the deer you were watching in W. Va. were not the same as we have here in Wy. Yours were white tails where a 100#live weight deer was huge and ours are mule deer. The dressed weight on my fat doe was 120#.