Shelby

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.

I love this!!!! Have you ever seen The White Trash Cookbook? I LOVE this...it's funny and there are some true, down south recipes in there.

Ok, so in the cookbook it's listed as hominy, but, unless I missed it, the book calls it hulled corn. My cookbook says we could use baking soda in place of the lye, so, I'm definitely doing this starting in late June when our field corn starts getting big enough. I'm excited! Oh, and my husband, then wants to make homemade corn nuts......I guess that's a whole 'nother topic lol.

Making a huge pot of spaghetti sauce all day long and smelling it.

Well, you were one up on me. Shelby, I didn't see any more of those Lemon Iced Tea chips today, although I will admit - I didn't look too hard. I really wasn't....I'm not very good at math I suspect that they've removed that flavor from the shelves.

OMG all of that food looks so good!!! The pork....droooooling.... That's why I was so confused about the time difference there...I kept trying to calculate why New Year's there was so much earlier than here :laugh:

Now that's something that not everyone can say........

The chicken looks really good. I'm going to have to try your recipe out.

Yeah... I'm going to go a step further and say those sound awful. And I'm going to go out on a limb and say probably not as bad as the blueberry flavour I tried out of curiosity a couple of months back. Just...wrong. Blueberry I'm sorry, but you are going to have to try the Lemon Tea...I'm dying to know.

Lemon Iced Tea Pringles....interesting!

Dude, that's like drinking water with your meal. Honestly, I don't know how you refrained from drinking more. After skiing, I'd probably down 10 icy cold COORS lights. Can you even get a Bud light out there in Coors country? You didn't used to be able to.

Kim, you are a really great writer. You describe everything so perfectly it's like I'm reading the book, only I'm not! Great catch on the hickory nuts. I'd love to see and taste them. Like I said in an earlier post, it really makes you realize that you can do all of the preserving and cooking that you want to --without the "fancy" cookware/preserve-ware that we all think that we "need". I got busy these last couple of days--we're supposed to get a huge ice/snow storm, so I've been doing all of the laundry and cleaning etc. because we tend to lose power easily. The last big storm we were without power for 12 days sigh. But, if that happens, it gives me plenty of time to read and it sure makes me feel like a pioneer.

I've only seen durian on the tv foodie programs and the taste, for the tasters, seems to be not good lol. Does it really taste like old socks??? I'm dying to try it.