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be glad you are where you are. You are making us very happy with this blog - can't speak for @rotuts but I got the most important things cleared up and can finish(or have John finish when he gets home) the rest tomorrow. Got my car out of deep freeze, got the driveway cleared, got fresh seed to the birds … Smudge NOT happy. Did Ron go out Thanksgiving Day? I remember when we lived in Texas a lot of the guys went out usually dove hunting before coming back for the meal. Saw about 7 cars this last Thursday morning up here. Small game season; muzzleloader began today - regular gun on the 9th for deer in our area.

Jo, do I need to come down there and be your minder?!

Banquet turkey pot pie for me. 1/2 slice of yellow American for Smudge; creamy salmon wet food for Sinder. Just enough for all.

I am so happy @MetsFan5 found this thread. I miss it. I can no longer explain away why I want potato chips with onion dip ….🤣

was that called the Papago Village back in the late 1980's? If so I made John take me there when we visited his brother in 1985...

is it possible that with upgrades measurements have been lost? will find my original PRINT formula and edit it in the next few days.

HELLO!!! My recipe from the little food blog I did is in the archives and it is dead easy to make.

about an hour or so in to slowly carmelized onions and garlic. the last of this season's thyme and tarragon with some flat leaf parsley stems and bay leaf to go in with a mix of beef and chicken stock ……..

No cheese, heavy on the pickles for me, please?

Mine is a 4 tine serving fork.

I know for myself that my hands are NOT the proper tool to mix meatballs or meatloaf with. I use the honkin' big fork that came with my everyday cutlery set. Gets the meat(s) and other things aerated without compacting them.

Still struggling through the sinus infection that travelled down into bronchitis … no sense of smell, almost no sense of taste, no desire to cook So …. yesterday did some weekly shopping (mainly nyjer for the feeder, a small amount of American cheese for Smudge's Sunday treat, toilet paper) then I said F* it and bought a Mama bear size Marie Callendar's beef pot pie and chicken pot pie. Baked the beef one off and ate the filling and top crust yesterday. The bottom crust wasn't as cooked as I prefer my pastry so saved it. Just baked it again. Waiting for it to cool a tetch then I made some beef gravy and added frozen peas and some carrots I had leftover. I'm going to crumble the pastry over the vegetable gravy and eat.

NOOOOOO..... How did the hubs and the munchkin deal with the lack of heat?! I can deal with a lot but after 5 days or so without heat (Snowtober - October 2011; Sandy -October 2012; March snow - 2017) I am a grumpy gus!

When putting some packs of chicken thighs into the poultry bin I noticed a container of ground turkey - OOPS!!! Thawed out and decided to make a meatloaf. Just binned it - I still have no sense of smell but the bit I tasted leads me to believe it was freezer burned. Oh, well.

I am SOOOO jealous. The book was wonderful and I've heard him interviewed by Andrew Zimmern.

Hmmmm…. wondering if roasting them, deglazing the pan and making soup would work? Tarragon, thyme and a mix of chicken and beef stock.

THANK YOU!!! I adore pastis and have written him several times. He has graciously replied once or twice. Really, I'm not stalking him.

Piece of honey corn bread that had minced Hatch chiles and shredded cheddar mixed in. Heated then spread with salted butter and topped with some TJ's sweet and spicy chili jam.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Himmel und erde - Heaven and earth - that John's grandmother used to make. She actually did it two ways(she is gone so I can't ask why). The first was mashed potatoes with applesauce and sautéed onions. Other times she simmered the apples and potatoes together, mashed them then put the sautéed onions on. She came from near Heidelberg originally and had a diploma as a home cook.

YEAH!!! I love road trips. Where in TX will you head?

Debbie Macomber (who lives near Seattle) wrote a series of romance novels based in eastern Washington called the Apple Valley series. On the other hand … my mom always had us peel the apples for pies, cut into quarters, cut the cores out then half were cut lengthwise and half crosswise. S then cooked them down slightly in butter then added her spices and then into her lard crust. She told us she cut the apples that way so she could get more into the pie. As a kid they were Northern Spys a gentleman always brought down from upstate. We always bought two bushels and they went into the cellar for the winter.

Shoot! Saw these in the Wildwood Acme and Rio Grande Shoprite but hadn't read this thread yet. I adore gingersnaps … homemade from my great-grandmother's recipe(soft) or from a bag to dunk in coffee or crush up to thicken my sauerbraten gravy.

There us also a maple crème cookie … un the shape of a maple leaf … a friend used to bring back in the fall when she used to visit family in St. Catherines. Can't remember the company …. maybe Dare?

… or, if you have the Stern's book Road Food check out the recipe for kummelweck rolls for beef on 'weck. Great potato rolls and only difference is caraway seeds and crunchy salt on top.

After Snowtober the year before … then Sandy …. here in Morris County NJ folks started Trunk or Treating where folks with young un's could hang out, give out candy and admire costumes since we had no freaking electricity for 3 = 21 days.