I don’t have a lot of time this morning; it’s a travel day for me, and I must get an early start. I did want to leave you with this, one of my favorite “cooking” strips. Readers don’t have to wonder where I got this idea!
Cooking Lesson
By Jimmy Johnson
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357 responses to “Cooking Lesson”
John, I don’t eat anything from convenience stores. I either eat at home or bring my lunch, something healthy like a banana and a little baggie of grapenuts and a bottle of skim milk. When I am out, I eat at restaurants and usually have a salad or roasted or grilled meats with veggies on the side. No desserts, they are evil. I am full and overfull by that time anyway.
GR6, long hair, short skirt, Rolex watch, and a loose grip!
My Mom would bake 2 pies and a cake every Saturday morning. Ribs, Meatloaf or ham for Sat dinner (at noon) and then I would wake up every Sunday morning to pot roast, which would finish cooking while we went to church. My favorite is cherry, then blueberry. Never cared for pumpkin or apple, unless Mom got the apples from our tree in the backyard. I never cared for her rhubarb until she switched from mushy fruit to crisp. Alas to much rhubarb….
I had to give up pie too. I may have 1 or 2 pieces a year and I really savor them. I did eat a few more pieces when I ran marathons, thinking that all those miles burned them off. I was wrong. I love my age, but would love to have my teenage metabolism, if only for Easter and Christmas dinner!
Her grip looks fine to me, sand. 😉
In the interest of full disclosure, I said that “I like pie”, not that “I eat pie”. I’ve never been one of those people who seem addicted to a dessert after their meal, and I almost never have one. In fact, I normally I eat pie only three times per years…lemon icebox on the Fourth of July, and pecan on Thanksgiving and Christmas Days.
Plus, I’d never make to to my 24.9 BMI goal eating pie every day.
Is anyone else missing TWC? It disappeared from my northern IL digital cable source yesterday around noon, and is still gone. Perchance, I missed a notice of on-going repairs or similar? (I have not yet read the comments of the past 12 hours, so apologize if this has been mentioned already.)
The only TWC I know of is Texas Wesleyan College where I took physics one summer when I was staying with my Aunt Jen
c exp: TWC is on as usual on our local cable system. There may be a problem with your local provider. If they have a web site, you might check it for information regarding TWC availability.
As you may be aware, Direct TV dropped TWC from its lineup from January 14, 2014, to April 9, 2014, over financial and programming issues. So it’s not impossible your carrier has done the same thing.
Oh,, The Weather Channel. I get it now
OK, new plan…I’ll set a calendar reminder for once a month, at which time I will spend a couple of minutes catching up on all the “action” on 9 Chickweed Lane.
Just had a note from TWC that they’re checking into my complaint. I was asked if I had HD or SD. What are HD and SD?
HD is High Definition. About the other one, I haven;t a clue
Ghost, I have been reading both 9CWL and Pibgorn daily for like three years or more. Really love Pibby
Debbe, thanks for the Archangel Michael and “Chain of Fools”. Makes you want to go to Heaven doesn’t it?
I keep thinking of you and chickens and eggs. I had two chicken farmer friends, one with eight big automated computer run fryer houses and one a free range bug eating and grass nibbling chicken farmer. Opposite spectrums of technology and politics and I loved them both. You don’t have to be like someone to still love and respect them for what THEY are.
I cannot understand anyone not loving pie, that is like not saluting the American flag or loving their mama. It is as Southern as the dirt our roots grow and hold onto.
But then Deep Delta does that to me and I start writing dialogue for the book again.
Love, Jackie Monies
Which sort of connects to writing and good writers and people we wish we had the talent of.
Nora Ephron (of “Michael” the movie) had such great abilities. I loved that she incorporated recipes into her prose, a new conceit at the time? And I have worshiped Eudora Welty since I was old enough to read, more so than Faulkner or Tennessee Williams or any of our other southern writers. I don’t think Eudora Welty could cook but boy could she write!
Of course Nora Ephron couldn’t help where she was born. That wasn’t her fault! She made up for it. Thanks Nora!
Love, Jackie Monies
I peek around the curtains and what do I see? Ghost and my sandcastler watching some little butt walking away. Those two are cut from the same coarse fabric.
For John in Richmond, TX: Have you ever eaten the fried pies from “The Original Fried Pie Shop” from the Arbuckle Mountains in Oklahoma? I am pretty sure they have a branch down near you. The best fried pies ever made, agreed upon by the Food Network, Southern Living, the New York Times food critic and others.
Talk about your flakey crust from Heaven! Nothing like the convenience food ones at all, like your mama used to make. Although truthfully my mama didn’t make any and my granny’s crust was tougher than nails!
I was going to be ecstatic about fried pies or “hand pies” as my British friends call them. I had a blue heeler I rescued out of a ditch with a hip injury (he fell off back of someone’s truck going onto the freeway the vet said) Blue had developed a taste for fried pies somehow with his previous owner, especially the crust part.
He would not however touch a French fry but the dog LOVED peanuts, along with iced tea.
My vet said he thought he was a Texas heeler which might account for his food tastes. I miss him a lot.
Love, Jackie Monies
Sorry, Jackie, I will salute the American flag all day long and fly the Lone Star Flag on San Jacinto Day, but I cannot like pie, cake, cookies, or candy. The way I see it, “on your lips for a second, on your hips forever.” It is a standing joke around my house whenever we have a birthday cake, mine is the half eaten one that looks like a bombed out house from a WWII movie.
But, then, I am an East Texan and a runner, not to speak of obsessed about my weight. I Have an antique turquoise and silver concho belt that is 26″ from the buckle tong to the first hole, and I am bound and determined that I will be able to wear that belt at all times.
Dear Lilyblack, I really admire your attitude toward sugary, fatty foods. How I wish the whole world could change and agree with you. I love rich food as much as anybody and always have eaten plenty of it, but over the last few years have read so much about the real effects of sugar, and have taken it seriously.
Our whole way of life is out of kilter, when everybody thinks that baking and cooking yummy sweet things for their family is a way of showing their love for them. Sorry, Villagers, Lily and I are going to be like skunks at a lawn party with the foodies here; but think about the whole picture. Just because “everybody” loves pies, pancakes, bacon and all that, and they are SO readily available all around us, it doesn’t mean it’s “OK to eat them.”
Sincerely, I am only thinking of good health.
HD = High Definition
SD = Standard Difinition
GR6, Loon has an eye on us. Will settle for Standard Definition as High Definition likely would get me a face slapping.
Excellent recipe: Sounds really tasty:
http://www.pomanmeals.com/grilled-vegetable-hash/
Loon:
GR6, sand, Arlo, I, and probably others in the Village are just ordinary hetero males. I blind-copied the site to one of my groups, adding that doing so was not male chauvinist, she dressed that way in order to be noticed. Probably as much by jealous females as by men.
Peace, emb
You know there is such a thing as being boringly “correct” in life. Live a little.
Love, Jackie Monies
I live a lot. I run, cook, have time with friends and family, play with our dogs, work my job that I love, go on two vacations a year, dance at least once a month and sing in my church’s choir. All these things are fun.
Lily, that comment actually wasn’t posted for you. Sorry you thought so. We are just getting awfully “correct” lately and perhaps I notice it because I come and go. Like now.
I am writing a column called “Passion Pit”. Interpret that as you like! I am back to writing so I leave sometimes, like JJ does.
Love, Jackie Monies
Lilyblack:
I used to run (miss it terribly), love to cook, have time with friends and family, play with our CATS, work at a job that has sent me around the world and allowed me to brag about my company parts on a vehicle, go on weekend vacations, and sing as a soloist at my church. However, I am rhythmically challenged and refuse to dance. All these things are fun. Sounds like you have a great deal of balance in your life…keep it up.