Shelby

Lovely kitchen and I like your toys.

Your step-by-step instruction may finally get me over being scared to try sous vide cooking. It looks beautiful.

I've never had that happen and mine are all mixed together. However, by the end of the summer I've normally burned all of my taste buds off from the scotch bonnets lol.

Some knives, once they taste blood, never lose the taste for it. My microplane has a similar predilection. Maybe we should introduce them. Good Lord, NO! They might breed! *shudder*

Some knives, once they taste blood, never lose the taste for it. My microplane has a similar predilection. Maybe we should introduce them.

On Valentine's Day night about 5 years ago I was slicing French bread with a knife that I've since named "The Biter". I dropped the knife and (stupidly) tried to catch it. I sliced the end off of my middle left finger. I didn't go to the hospital, but I guess I should have. That's the closest I've ever come to fainting. I still have no feeling in it. My husband doesn't let me touch that knife any more.

Chris, it's so warm here today...do you really think we're done with winter??? I hope we are! You're way ahead of me already. I never thought of planting peas so early... that's a great idea! Can you plant any other veggies like that? Do the mice not eat the seeds? Where do you order your seeds from? I used to buy from Burpee, but I've been disappointed in the quality. I got a new catalog the other day with a ton of grafted hybrid type varieties. I'm tempted to try a few from there. Since we're growing field corn this year, I'll be making pickled baby corn and canning that. Our garden is mostly tomatoes and peppers. All varieties of peppers--too many peppers, usually lol. We also plant basil and cucumbers. I used to do squash and eggplant, but the squash bugs took over and ruined it all so I'm scared to plant those ever again.

Oh that's such a bummer. Can you garden in a different spot in your yard so that ground can rest?

What a great market! I've always wanted to see/taste Turkish Delight ever since reading that book! I didn't picture it like that...I don't know what I expected lol. Can you describe the texture and taste?

You plate everything unlike anyone I've ever seen. You have SO much talent! Beautiful sashimi.

Oh YUM. I LOVE a good root beer and they are so hard to find these days.

I used to order fresh seafood every once in a while....thick tuna steaks, salmon (sigh), little neck clams, mussels...(lemme wipe the drool off). It was a splurge when I did it, but now, I don't do it anymore. If gasoline keeps going up I will have to buy a good pair of walking shoes, though.

HUGE blizzard here. It's snowing 2" an hour. Supposed to get 16". Sigh. A few meals to look at....I'm thinking of making pizza again tonight because the last was so good. At least my cats aren't bored...... Anchovy Sausage Kung Pao chicken with a cold beer Ribs, tater salad and onion crispies for super bowl

Yummmmmmmm your last supper looks soooo good. Thank you, Erin for showing us a peek into your life! I loved every second!

I'm glad the beef somehow got on your table. It's beautiful!

Awesome, thanks!

I lied. They planted navy beans.

I wondered about the dry bean variety, too. I did a quick scan of the chapter about harvest and I only see them called "beans". In the cookbook, however, there is a recipe for succotash that Almanzo and his family ate during the county fair in October. It says that the beans they would have used were "shell beans" or "pole beans". It says that if you cannot find these then lima beans could be subbed.

I'm hogging this topic lol. I'm to the part where Almanzo scours the hills looking for wintergreen berries. I've never seen these in person, so I looked them up online. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintergreen I found this quite interesting. 30 mL (about 1 fl oz) of oil of wintergreen is equivalent to 55.7 g of aspirin, or about 171 adult aspirin tablets (US). This conversion illustrates the potency and potential toxicity of oil of wintergreen even in small quantities. Now, I have no idea how much oil is in each berry...so I don't know how much Almanzo ingested, but, he spent whole afternoons hunting and eating these suckers. Obviously he never had any ill affects??? Or, am I looking at the wrong kind of berry?

There is such a difference between the Wilder family and the Ingalls family. For instance, Mother Wilder cooks on Sundays and the Ingalls make do with cold leftovers as they consider cooking "work".

Ohmygosh, that looks incredible. I want that noodle stuff right now! I must try my hand at naan. It looks like a fluffier tortilla. What does it taste like? Do you ever take leftovers home out of that restaurant? I would order extra just so I could.

I'm reading "Farmer Boy" now. When I was little, this was my least favorite book in the series. I disliked switching from Laura and her family's traditions and ways to the Wilder's vastly "richer" way of life. However, now, I'm enjoying this one. Being older puts things in a different light. I'm craving salty buttery popcorn now. Has anyone ever tried putting popcorn in milk?

I wish someone would give ME a pig leg

Must be a slow news day......

My husband takes Protonix for it and has no problems any more. Before he went to the doctor for it, I had to get dinner done fairly early --like 7:30--which during the summer, is very early for us what with work, garden etc. If it got past then, he was miserable. I get reflux a lot during the summer because I eat tons and tons of fresh tomatoes from my garden. Usually, if I take an over-the-counter pill early in the afternoon, then I'm fine. But, if I'm stressed out or worried about something going on in my life, on top of eating something disagreeable, then those pills don't make a dent. So, I take one of my husband's pills and that knocks it out for at least 3 days.