A short poem today, for a short post. This is from 1996, 20 years ago this month. Someone asked me about this strip in an email the other day, wanting help finding it. At the time, I wasn’t sure where to look, and it was just as well. I would have sworn I drew it no more than 10 years ago. Yeek.
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Trucker, sorry more food porn.
Gotta luv it!:
http://imgur.com/snhvea1
I have a pork butt in the freezer (15-20 lb). Maybe next weekend I will do some pulled pork (too dang much food in the fridge right now to think of anything but leftovers for the next week).
TR, if you ever make it up my way, we will feed you well.
Trucker, Gary and family are wonderful fun people and he is sincere about the food.
The same applies to me. I come from a tradition of over feeding everyone and then send you home with leftovers.
I will add to and reheat my veggie soup and bake some cornbread to feed any of my workmen who show up tomorrow. Tony already said to save him some when he came by to pick up check. Sweet tea, soup and cornbread.
Gary, boiling sundry gibbons?
http://a-z-animals.com/media/animals/images/original/gibbon1.jpg
Surely you meant giblets?
Jackie, at one time I had a large George Foreman rotisserie. It was great for cooking standing rib roasts. Crispy along the outside and medium rare on the inside. It really was as easy as putting water in the drip pan, setting the temp and time, put the roast on the spit and let’er go! It did a wonderful job with whole chickens too!
Afraid I have never been much of a cook when it comes to using things with a plug on a wire. I am just a basic turn on the oven and put it in a pan, then baste and brush it and baste it some more.
In fact, I was looking for recipes earlier and they all seemed to be for crock pots. I am going, well where are the recipes for a roasting pan or a braiser?
Typo Mark, not gibbons… gubbins. The giblets are considered gubbins (scraps) by some.
I have the giblets, heart, liver, carcass, neck, wing tips and the spine I cut out of the back when I spatchcocked the bird. What some would toss, I am making into soup.
Jackie, the crock pot is a useful tool. I make a nice Hungarian goulash with mine.
And my smoker has a plug too. There is an auger to feed the wood pellets, a hot rod to initially light the pellets and a fan blowing air through the lit pellets. It draws maybe 300W when lighting and then runs at about 40W there after (just running the auger and fan).
I used to laugh that my mother had been raised by a pack of appliances and was obsessed with them. She didn’t cook much! She owned 100s of cookbooks too.
The genes passed to my younger daughter who has a closet for hers.
If you give me a Japanese chef’s knife, a cutting board, a skillet, a grill and a braising pot and a wooden spoon and I an cook most any meal and some desserts.
Jackie, thank you for your incredibly generous offer to do a silk flower arrangement for my mom’s gravesite. She will love that. The thing is, I’d rather take delivery of it in person. The other thing is, that will not be possible for me this week, as it appears I will have to be out of town for most or all of it. So can I get a rain check on that until you pass this way sometime later…or until I can get to Oklahoma?
Yes, you would have liked my mom, and she would have liked you.
Debbe 😉 From Sirius again. I hope you have an easy Monday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XcTyEKSnYg
Good morning Villagers….
So much for a day off, had to go in and help Ian. Really, one person cannot do it alone. Too many things can go wrong. Indy Mindy once wrote a job description for a poultry house worker. I have it on my bulletin board at work. It’s a good one, I’ll bring it home and retype it.
So much food in the above posts….husband has gotten good on smoking pork tenderloin on the smoker. He’s grocery shopping today, hope he picks one up. It also makes good sandwiches.
Gary, a belated, blessed Canadian Thanksgiving to you and yours. Sounds like you had a bountiful one.
Read an article about changing Columbus Day to Indigenous People Day. Hmmm, I could never understand why there was a Columbus Day….
Going to take a while to get use to this keyboard….seems my curser jumps around every now and then.
Old Bear has been MIA for too long.
gotta go
GR 😉 hope I do….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTphubOchF4
Monday’s grin:
http://cheezburger.com/8977956096
Debbe, the LA Times answered your question last year:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-columbus-day-why-do-we-still-celebrate-20151012-htmlstory.html
And put me down as someone who refuses to judge individuals who lived centuries ago by today’s standards. I’m not God, nor do I play him on TV.
Good morning Ghost and rest of Village. Thank you. I hope your sister likes pink and lavender because I got enough flowers to do two, along with reds and creams for my mama’s headstone urn. Could not find snake for mama’s vase but I will. Probably scare cemetery workers to death.
You have NO idea how hard I tried to find your mama’s obituary so I could send flowers from the Village for her service. Then I kept searching because I was going to send or deliver a silk memorial floral and put on grave. You are most definitely a well hidden ghost.
Frustrated florists have to admit what they are trying to do and ask for a delivery address. I would have liked just placing flowers as a surprise for them. Memorial flowers always make me feel good, placing them and seeing how the grave site suddenly looks so much softer or brighter or just pretty.
Talent is of little value if one never shares it or gives it away.
The temperature outside is 56 and I seldom turn on heat in house, I prefer cool. Woke up to neighbor pumping in propane. We have natural gas here so the propane tanks are by choice. At least he removed it from my bedroom wall and property line!
Putting on jeans and light sweater to go shop for mums and fall vegetables, pansies and violas and iris if I can find some. I am panicking at idea of knee replacement in six weeks.
Of course I have to get five clearances and not be I’ll at that time.
And here is song that came on for me when I hit Pandora button. J. J. Cale playing Roll On with Eric Clapton playing backup on guitar.
https://youtu.be/3Umeco1Z-j4
Good choice for getting up to.
I wonder how often natural gas delivery gets interrupted by your local weather disasters?
OTOH, I have heard of country homes and farms with propane that have to ration during power failures (propane generators) in bad weather because they don’t know if/when they will get their next delivery.
Another great song courtesy of Pandora. https://youtu.be/qx1LqnIJLj8
Late great Jerry Garcia on Deep Elem Blues. Did not know this was recorded by CW legend Hank Thompson in 1959?
Of course deep Elem, an area in Dallas has been much gentrified now and is full of pricey lofts, condos, trendy shops and restaurants. But probably still blues?
I work there and arrived for my shift just as they evacuated the building. In addition to the details in the story I’d add that we’ve since learned that the investigators found no CO in the building but that it did show up in the victims’ blood work:
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=41801802&nid=148&title=11-matc-students-exposed-to-dangerous-chemicals-transported-to-hospital-
Now for something totally ludicrous: Free, online courses are illegal under the ADA!
http://seethruedu.com/how-could-it-be-illegal-to-offer-free-online-courses/?utm_content=bufferee685&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Unbelievable. Either you run into significant expense so that any possible disabled person can take a free course or no-one will be allowed to take a free course. And they will sue your butt for good measure.
Bureaucracy is the bane of common sense.