You guys!!! I am soooo slow! It's all good ~ I needed to laugh this a.m.

Ed obviously doesn't shop at Costco like I do.

carol

ctcarol said:Ed obviously doesn't shop at Costco like I do.

Yeah, I do!!! <BURP!!!!>

I chuckle everytime I walk by the lady giving away samples of the dried seaweed. Everybody speeds up when they walk near her food stand.

That's where I get my ready cooked bacon, because their store brand is the "thick sliced". Just have to check the Use or freeze by dates. Ok, I admit it's just 1# of bacon, but it's 1# after 1/2# of grease has been cooked off, and I don't have to clean it up.

I'm taking a canning class tomorrow. I've filled the freezer, so i need to learn how to fill the pantry.

NakedChickenFarm said:I'm taking a canning class tomorrow. I've filled the freezer, so i need to learn how to fill the pantry.

Good idea! We need another freezer if I don't start canning. Yesterday we sat down with a load of pintos and shucked them by hand. At least they only go in the freezer for a little bit to kill any bugs...the store bought pintos are irradiated for that.

Anyone have any tried-and-true ways to keep slugs off of cabbages? I finally harvested the green ones and am sick over the destruction. I used every trick in the book. Planted them with onions and dianthus, spread coffee grounds, sprayed with mint and insecticidal soap, and used Sluggo around the perimeter. The Sluggo works just for a bit and has to be re-applied and I have gone through $$$! The red cabbages aren't as affected and those were good, like the little buggers slunk past them to get to the all night buffet: the green cabbages.

I have found several videos on Youtube that show no home remedy works against them. One guy wired up his raised beds with voltage!

I haven't "eaten" it yet, but i spent today turning 10 small pie pumpkins into 9 cups shredded pumpkin for bread. Recipe calls for 3 cups, so i have 3 packages in the freezer waiting for the urge to bake. Given our Texas heat, that may be awhile.

Dirt
When you are sweating hard, digging potatoes and wiping you dripping nose with you dirty hands, you forget how close you mouth is to your nose.
As Andrew Zimmern often says -- it had a natural earthy flavor.

A few tomatoes and they are not super pretty but I made some salsa, with one of my jalapenos, and it was good. Someone else's cilantro though, I just can't seem to grow it from seed- the ones I sowed in a pot last week have disappeared. I have planted more in ground- eventually I should stumble into a successful planting.

I ate some of my tomatoes and peppers in a salad. Pretty common for me to just eat some most days.

Cooking stewed okra tonight.

Can you tell us how to make stewed okra? I have lots in the freezer.

Some tomatoes straggling in, so, salsa, and greek salad.

Made some chillie with tomatoes, chiles, onions and tomatillo from the garden.
Could not taste it but Sharon liked it so I know I should have put more hot chiles in there.
I ate some moldy bread with onion and chives cream cheese. I cut the moldy part off and that actually tasted just fine.
One lady at the State Fair said I should enroll my self in one of those programs for health matters they cannot figure out.
She gave me their business card.

sallyg said:Can you tell us how to make stewed okra? I have lots in the freezer.

Some tomatoes straggling in, so, salsa, and greek salad.

I've boiled okra but never really made a stew, but...

The other night I drug out a quart jar of pork ribs that I pressure canned last year. I boiled the pork down for ten minutes and then seared it a little bit in the frying pan. Sat it aside while I dealt with the vegetables. I'd been out at the garden and brought in several bell peppers and a big handful of okra. To this I added store bought onions and irish'taters and a little peanut oil. I just threw all the vegetables in and stewed them down and then added the meat back to it and proceeded to cook it till the taters were tender. A little worshestitishireshirsir sauce a little (secret ingredient) McCormicks *Seasoned* meat tenderizer and.....BOOM!!!!!!!!! Something fit to eat!!!!!!!! The little okra pods were really tasty in amongst all of this...I'll be adding them regularly now.

If this keeps up I'm going to have to call New York or Hollywood to see about getting my own syndicated cooking show!!!!!!

Intheswamp said:

If this keeps up I'm going to have to call New York or Hollywood to see about getting my own syndicated cooking show!!!!!!

ed
thanks for clarifying how spell wrshtrshr..

I made stir fried peppers yesterday. Ate about half yesterday and the rest today. They turned out pretty good.

sallyg said:ed
thanks for clarifying how spell wrshtrshr..

I couldn't have done it without my spell-checker!!!