sparrowgrass
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Chad, it was the part about starting a major electrical fire that made me blow diet coke out my nose.
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get yourself a 20 year old son, and the question on leftover (no matter how huge a roast you made) becomes moot.
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Diet coke and toast.
Oh, wait, I missed the part about feeling human. Never mind. I am going back to bed.
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Suvir, sumac is common wild plant in the eastern half of the country. My kids liked sumac-ade when they were younger.
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Burning pear = scorching the prickles off the prickly pear cactus so the cattle can eat the pads.
Just FYI for the Yankee city folk.
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Asparagus.
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I have a sciatica exercise, too--really works. PM me if you want it.
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The very first food memory I have is from when I was almost 2. It was Easter, and we were visiting the ancient great aunts, and one of them handed me a PEEP.
Heavenly--that smooshy marshmallow and crunchy sugar--I can still remember how wonderful
I thought that Peep was. I have tried one since then--don't see the attraction any more.
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The sweet/hot salsa I can every summer (5 gallons worth this summer)
My Aunt Rosie's peanut brittle, a Christmas must.
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The one I am recommending to myself is Gurneys, because it came with a $20 gift certificate.
Really, however, I mostly dream my way thru the catalogs, and end up actually buying from local sources. I like the catalogs, because they have lots more information than you can find on the backs of the packets, and I try to find the same varieties here at home.
If you are thinking of ordering perennials, order from a company in your planting zone, or close, anyhow. Easier to find things that fit your hardiness requirements.
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I got 13 seed catalogs this week--does that count?
Too cold and muddy in Missouri to even think about getting out in the garden.
I will just go and pick some eggs from the "raised beds" in the henhouse.
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No-calorie food that tasted good and satisfied.
Is that so much to ask?
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Mangoes, cashews and poison ivy are all in the same family. I am severely allergice to PI, but cashew and mangoes don't bother me. Thank heavens.
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Seems to me that snow cream is a southern thing--my Minnesota neighbors had never heard of it.
If you burn wood, get your snow far from the house. Hickory smoked ice cream is yucky.
Rain water is lovely to drink, and even better to wash your hair with--soft, soft, soft.
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I am from Missouri, so of course I like mine breaded and deep fried. In an effort to cut calories, I tried sorta dry-frying, without breading, in a lightly oiled cast iron pan--pan-roasting on top of the stove?--and enjoyed the result. I used little ones and left them whole or maybe cut in two pieces.
I love okra.
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Broccoli, without a doubt, broccoli was the worst. Put on to boil at the same time the potatoes were started, it was grey mush by the time it reached the table. Served with a sauce made of the cooking water and a pat of margarine.
Sorry, Mom.
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"Regardless of my feelings pro or con, I get a little irritated that Korea has been targeted with global scorn for the practice of eating dogs when American Southerners purportedly eat raccoons, squirrels, and skunks. The craze in the U.S. is now ostrich meat. I love dogs, I would never eat them personally, but I just don't understand why it's okay to eat one animal and not the other. "
Dang it, don't nobody round here eat skunks!!
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Chicks beaks are burnt off with a cauterizer. "Cage free" chickens still live in cramped quarters--it is just one big cage (a building) instead of a thousand small ones. It is the only economical way to raise mass quantities of chickens.
"Free range" means that chickens have access to the out of doors for some unspecified amount of time--probably access to a crowded, manure covered slab of concrete. Free range sounds nice, but the reality, for commercial produced birds, is probably not what you are imagining.
Bugs are probably not a part of most hens' diets--when the USDA inspector comes by and finds bugs, it is a serious violation. Most hens eat a mix that is mostly grain--corn, wheat, soybeans. Laying hens need additional protein, which can come from the soybeans, and calcium, which can be oyster shells or limestone. I don't think a vegetarian diet is bad, compared to a non-vegetarian diet. Neither bird is scratching in the dirt and eating junebugs, rolling in the dust or eating nice fresh grass or my almost ripe tomatoes, like a real chicken should.
Depending on market prices, the protein and calcium may be obtained from animal sources--meat scraps, meat & bone meal, fish meal & high grade tankage (you really don't want to know--tankage is a product obtained by rendering animal tissues, including blood, exclusive of hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure and stomach contents except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good manufacturing practice, according to a California legal description I just found on the web.)
As far as I know, no chickens are hooked up to conveyor belts. They are in cages with slanted floors, and their eggs do drop onto a belt and are carried to the processing area of the plant.
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Good on ya, Cherrypi!!
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Jerusalem artichokes--the artichoke part comes from the similarity in taste to real artichokes.
The Jerusalem comes from the French "girasole", --which means "follow the sun". The plant is in the sunflower family, and has yellow flowers that track the sun across the sky--the flowers always face the sun.
FWIW, Jerusalem are easy to grow and quite prolific. Don't plant them in your regular veggie garden--they will take over. They are native to North America, and grow wild in the midwest.
More than you needed to know, huh?
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I never buy sweet corn or asparagus or strawberries. If I don't go out and pick them myself, I don't eat them.
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Having a close personal relationship
with the producers of my breakfast eggs has caused me to forswear grocery store eggs forever. -
"I've got a goose to pick with you, and you better bring a basket for the feathers"
means that you are in way deep trouble, we are gonna get to the bottom of it, and it might take a while.
I always heard "how the hog ate the gum boot", meaning something was talked over endlessly, as a hog would chew and chew and chew to eat a piece of rubber.
Not exactly food related, but a good piece of ground (farm field) is referred to as "rich as 3 feet up a bull's ass."
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There was an article (quite a long article, in fact--big news item) in our local weekly paper last week, talking about the opening of a new convenience store in the south end of the county. The store has a "deli" which means they serve frozen pizza, eggrolls, etc. And, according to the paper, "fried children" .
I could ask for their recipe, if you like, as an alternative to roast kid.
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Related question--I have a son, whose recipe for anything is "put it in the stainless steel pot, turn it on high, and go back to playing video games until the smoke alarms goes off."
Rice and noodles, when charred black, are really hard to get off. Any sugestions?