Shelby

Aha!!!! Thank you both very much.

Nice haul from the asparagus garden yesterday. Storm alert just went off a while ago to warn me of a freeze tonight. Sigh. 29 degrees. Glad I didn't plant my 'maters yet....... A bit worried about my peonies. I've already sucker budded them so they are quite tall and I don't think I have buckets big enough to put over them.

Turned 15 lbs of crawfish into a couple pounds in just 2 days lol. We spent about an hour shelling the little guys. Goes faster when you drink wine while shelling Ronnie had gone fishing at the river and brought home a nice big drum so we had that along with some fried crawfish tails. I can't make those very often. They are addictive. Like popcorn shrimp. Only better.

Is that a garlic sauce up top? And I have only had fried ice cream once...SO good.

You might be on to something. Also, I read how your beans tasted on the bitter side and mine did too! I chalked it up to using too much molasses because I didn't measure but I think you are so right about the overcooking.

Looks super good, Chris. I don't think I've ever had beef tongue.

I can't find my post, but I had the same thing happen with some RG beans. They were not the same kind as you used. I did at least 3 45 min rounds (was making baked beans like you were) and they still weren't done. I gave up and did another round the next morning and they were great. Not blaming the beans at all. They were not old. I decided that I needed to plan ahead better and soak them next time but I dunno if that would have helped.

Ordered a 15 lb. bag of crawfish from Cajun Grocer. Ohhhhhh soooooo gooooooooood. They were very lively...we only found 2 dead ones in the whole bag. I like to throw a bunch of stuff in my boil....corn on the cob, garlic cloves, brussels sprouts, sausages, hot dogs, broccoli......and of course the requisite lemons and onions. Lots left over...going to be peeling for a while today. I see crawfish pasta and crawfish pie in our future

I'm an everything girl. Runner up would be plain onion and just plain.

Wow, cream is cheap there. I'll have to tell my husband about that (he likes to scavenger for bargains lol). A couple months ago I had cream on the grocery list...I forget why I needed it so badly but I needed it no matter what. The cream was over $10 for a quart. I am not kidding. I thought the store had rung it up wrong so he went back next time he was in town. Nope. That was the price. I was shocked.

LOVE the frogs.

SO neat. I don't like tea but that would make me tempted to drink it lol.

One of the neatest things I've seen in a while. I like stuff like this. I would have (very wrongly) guessed they were chopstick holders lol. Thank you for telling us about them!

Wait wait wait, is that a little hand holding your egg??? That is so cool!

Venison bierocks , baked beans and fries

SV chicken breast stuffed with cheese, salami and spinach with more asparagus from the garden, a few brussels sprouts and fresh pasta with my last batch of sauce from last summer.

Gah, it is SO windy here. Fires are raging again. Need rain please I was able to get out on Monday and plant lettuce, spinach, collards and brussels sprouts. We will see if anything grows. Yesterday I picked the first asparagus of the year.

SV lamb, the first asparagus from the garden --soooooo gooooooood and new potatoes done in the Instant Pot.

I'm envious, too. I think the year I planted it, it was too warm here...and the winters just don't seem that cold any more.

That chicken looks so good. I need to thaw one out. PS--I'm glad to see someone else's oven looks like mine....I prefer to think of it as "well used", not dirty lol. PPS--I can no longer see, though, because my light bulb in there burned out. It has it's advantages.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnn oh how I love rhubarb pie. I haven't had it in a long long time. I tried to grow it and it was a sad failure.

I've never had cottage roll...I googled, though. Sounds kind of similar to corned beef? I just did corned beef on St. Pat's Day in the IP. High pressure, 90 mins. Natural release.

Geez, I go to bed and all these mouthwatering pictures appear! Kay, I'm dying for some fried okra. I will have to wait a few months sigh. Gfweb, your meats always look cooked to perfection. Ann, you're killing me. The hot turkey...wish I had that right now. Vlcatko, all your dishes look wonderful but that scotch egg jumped out at me. YUM! Liuzhou, WOW on the olive bread. I might have to make some of that. Ronnie went fishing in our river yesterday and came home with a catfish and some drum. So, fried fish, mac and cheese and baked beans.

My favorite for fish is equal parts flour and cornstarch mixed with a beer. That's what is for dinner tonight, actually.

Just came in from the garden. Had plans to plant all afternoon but it's so windy that it was blowing the seeds (peas) out of my hand. I knew there was NO way I could plant little seeds like lettuce. There's always tomorrow I did get 300 onions, a packet of beans and a packet of peas in. I think cocktail hour shall come early today.....