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My children were veggi-phobic--they thought if anything green passed their lips, their heads would certainly fall off.
However, on a walk thru the woods, they were more than happy to munch on tender young catbrier shoots, violet leaves and flowers, sassafrass and spicebush twigs, peppercress seed pods, oxalis (wild sorrel) leaves and pods and anything else I could find from my Peterson's guide to wild foods, or Euell Gibbons' books.
We called it browsing.
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I rinse my hair with a couple tablespoons of cider vinegar mixed in a quart of water--then I rinse again with plain water, to get rid of most of the vinegar smell, blovie. The vinegar cuts the soap scum from hard water, and leaves my hair very shiny and soft.
Window washing--1 gallon hot water, 2 cups vinegar, 1 cup clear ammonia, 1 T cornstarch--works great.
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My sis and I hunt morels in S. Illinois, and turkey hunters are definitely a danger. To avoid "dressing like a turkey", don't wear red, white or blue in the woods--all colors quite noticeable on a turkey during breeding season. (Which means don't pull out a white hanky or kleenex to blow your nose, might get it blown off.)
Wait to hunt until you have had 3 days in a row above 65 degrees.
Soon, soon!!
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I realized, when I read this, that I don't have a cabinet over the fridge--I am off to Lowes to see if I can find a deep cabinet to hold my trays/cookie sheets. That would look much better than the pile of egg cartons and the pressure canner that currently live on top of the fridge.
Thanks muchly.
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Arey, I just had to replace my pan too--it was so warped the paddles were scraping metal into the dough, and my machine is only 2 years old. I sure hope I don't have to do that again.
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Hey, Mabelline, would you be interested in sharing some peter pepper seeds? I would love to try some.
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Once when my son was little, he asked if he could have a "soft drink" with his burger. Not a phrase we would have used, but we said sure, and ordered him one. When I brought it to the table, he was sorely disappointed--he thought a "soft drink" was a milk shake.
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water packed, with mayo, little mustard, chopped celery, 2 or 3 chopped boiled eggs, some salt. On a toasted English muffin, or with crackers, or stuffed into a lovely tomato, in the summer.
My roomie on college used to smush everything to a paste--yuck.
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Lambie cake, definitely. Pound cake, with white fluffy frosting and lots of coconut. I found my mold in a junk store--aluminum, cost me $8, just like Mom's.
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What's wrong with bourbon and coke?
My nextdoor neighbor in Alabama used to drink bourbon and Tab--now that is yucky.
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I did it!! I didn't read the recipe first--just stuck the big ol butt in the oven at 225 for 24 hours--no high heat at either end of the process.
Man, that is good stuff--crispy fat, fall apart meat, and super gravy from the brownbits in the bottom of the pan.
Next time I am going to slather it with bbq sauce when I get up in the morning (instead of just opening the oven and drooling on the floor at 7 am.)
Or maybe I will follow the recipe and do the spices and vinegar.
Or maybe I will just keep doing it over and over til I get it right.
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Duck or chicken eggs complete with embryo are called balut, at least in the Philipines. I don't believe I could eat those either.
Or bugs.
(edited becuz I cain't spell)
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Poison Sumac is Toxicodendron vernix. It is the exception to the "leaves of three, let it be" rule--it has 7-10 leaflets. Unless you enjoy swamp slogging, don't worry about it too much--it grows in places most people don't go. It has white berries.
The sumacs with the edible berries are Rhus--Rhus copallina, Rhus aromatica, and several others. I have a big Rhus aromatic off the back porch--looks almost like poison ivy, but the leaves are not shiny, and the berries are red. And it smells good, but don't use that as a diagnostic tool--if you crush poison ivy leaves and hold them to your nose, you will be sorry.
If you remind me in the fall, I will mail sumac samples to anybody who wants them.
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For the pastry lovers, Bismarck is a town in MO.
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I live in Missouri--most folks here say soda. I say coke--if you are running into the Casey's for coke, make mine a diet Pepsi, please.
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Another time at my mother's, I put some chestnuts in the ol'microwave. Didn't bother to put little puncture holes into the nuts, as I normally would. Again, spectacular results. First the chestnuts pirouette madly around, then they explode. Honestly, if I was given the chance, I might do that again.
That reminds me of my son's first recipe, dutifully written on a 3x5 card.
"Put hot dogs in microwave. Use a plate. Cook on number 1 til they wiggle."
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Me and the dog vote yes.
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I ain't in Texas--2 states up, in Missouri--but I do appreciate the squash borer suggestion. Haven't had a problem with them in this new garden, but only because they haven't found the plants yet.
I bought some broccoli seed the other day--that is all the gardening I can do right now, in the sun room.
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Thomas Jefferson, Sacajawea, Meriweather Lewis and William Clark.
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Waxy chocolate--the kind my ex-mother-in-law always bought for Easter and Christmas.
"Butter" flavored anything.
Pickles (includes sauerkraut, pickled jalapenos,artichoke hearts, etc.)
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I love wild oyster mushrooms, which are often infested with little white beetle larvae. If the infestation is not too bad, I rinse/pick off any of the little buggers I can see, and try not to think of the rest as I enjoy my mushrooms. If the shroom is riddled with worm holes, it tastes bad, so I discard those.
I quit growing broccoli in my garden for a long time, because of the green cabbage looper worms--I hated making a nice broccoli dish and finding one of those dudes on my plate after I finished. Now I use bT (bacillus Thuringiensis, aka Dipel) on the plants and don't find them any more.
I guess I don't mind em if I can't see em.
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Kate, you might want to avoid looking closely at your food, because almost everything has a good chance of having some kind of small critters in it.
Stuff you eat grows outdoors, and the outdoors is a well known hangout for bugs. Grain products come complete with insect eggs, canned and frozen veggies (how can you harvest and shell peas and corn without occasionally incorporating a live thing?) all have particular pests, and stored processed food attracts pantry pests. And if you are into organic food--heaven help ya. I won't even talk about warbles and other parasites found in meat and fish--yuck.
I attended a presentation by Dr. Tom Turpin, a Purdue entemologist, where he discussed insect eating. Almost all cultures, except Europeans and Americans, eat insects regularly.
He also said that the paper band on the top of the ketchup bottle was put there originally to hide the insect eggs that floated to the top of the container. Apparently ketchup is now processed differently, so the eggs are pureed along with the tomatoes, but they are still in there.
Mudpuppie, the weevils probably tasted fine--weevil poop and stale granola bar, on the other hand, are yucky.
edited to the add the note to mudpuppie.
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I put all my flours in the freezer for at least 24 hours, too, especially the whole wheat/rye types. All grains have the possibility of having bug eggs in them, and the freezing kills the eggs.
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All spices go from the grocery sack directly into the freezer, for at least a couple of days. The chili powder and paprika live in there permanently.
The chickens would have loved that goulash, worms and all.
In praise of a bread machine
in Kitchen Consumer
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I don't know how the pan warped. I use both the baking cycle and the dough cycle.