It’s been a few years since we’ve seen this A&J from 1993. Have you ever noticed how many of those quickie casserole recipes on Facebook include potatoes, cheese, ham or bacon, corn, sour cream and a variable ingredient or two? Of course they’ll be good! Most of the Kickstarter rewards that were scheduled for delivery in October have been sent. The T shirts did not go out until Monday, the last day of the month, so if you’re expecting a T, it might not have arrived yet. It should soon. However! The original sketches have not gone out yet. They will be sent by this time next week. I apologize for the delay; I’m sure you won’t have much trouble speculating about its cause.
173 responses to “It’s French for ‘gooey!’”
Smigz, that fatal fascination is what drew me to Loon, though I confess it twas not sleep back in those years.
GR6, you are cut from the Dos Equis Man’s cloth, interesting in your own right.
What sand said. All of it.
Small hairy sleeping companion has a foot fetish and is down licking my right foot. Has stopped to scratch a personal itch.
Moved up to cuddle against my left thigh and butt since I was doing leg stretches. Sounds human doesn’t he?
I stopped to breath and he woke up, rushed to kiss me, stopped to scratch again and moved his position to my shoulder. Back asleep curled up. Sounds human doesn’t he? Settled on upper right thigh after another scratch
No, Jackie. I’ll enjoy your garden from your words, though. 🙂
Give Dickens a hug for me.
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Stay thirsty, my friends.
So, are you the old or the new or neit her?
Be yourself, everyone else is taken. O. Wilde
GM Debbe
“Happy trails to you”
What Llee said
Where has the Village gone today? What has gotten everyone’s attention?
For me, it was what may be the last beautiful Saturday of the fall. I got to watch wife & daughters trimming hedge for last time this season and raking leaves. I love hard work; I can watch it for hours! 😉
Found two gigantic Chuck roasts in bottom tray of kitchen freezer and have them out defrosting with intent of cooking them in crock pots. I own a number of crock pots but am not sure I ever actually used one?
May put one in pot with the instant crock pot sauce and cook all day tomorrow (half a roast actually) and put one on top of stove in big pot and slow cook it traditionally (other half) if I cut the two huge roasts in half I will have four pots of around three pounds of roast. Maybe I will do third one as beef stew which leaves a fourth chunk to use up.
Any suggestions?
My one use of Crock-Pot (brand) seasoning produced a roast that was too salty to eat. This recipe is just as my sister sent it to me.
A Recipe from Ghost’s Kitchen
Beef “To Die For” Roast
2 lb. boneless eye of round roast (see note)
1 packet brown gravy mix
1 packet Italian dressing mix
1 packet Ranch dressing mix
1 cup water
Mix packets with a little water to make a paste and rub over roast. Place remaining water in bottom of crock pot then add roast so seasoning will not “wash” off. Cook 6 to 8 hours on low. (Canned whole potatoes and fresh baby carrots may be added. Place vegetables in bottom of crock pot, add water then place roast on top.)
Note: Eye of round is sooooo expensive. This recipe should work well using less expensive beef roasts – such as chuck. I’ll bet it would be good prepared with Boston butt pork roast.
The big problem with crackpots in my experience is the cleanup afterwards. From the housewares.about.com website:
Slow cookers are designed with a glossy interior finish to help keep foods from sticking and make clean-up easier. However, over time the finish will wear off and foods will start sticking to the side walls of the cooker. This will be very noticeable and certain foods like acidic sauces can wear off the finish quicker than other foods.
However, if you spray or grease the interior of your slow cooker with a cooking oil spray before placing the food in it, the finish will last longer and foods will be less likely to stick to the interior.
To that I would add: When the food’s done, remove leftovers and put them in the fridge ASAP. Don’t leave it sitting there mostly empty with the heat on for several hours!
OK Mr. Ghost, I will try that one. Since I have no recollection of ever using a slow cooker or sauce, I am open to suggestions!
Have you cooked your sisters roast? Do canned potatoes work better than fresh? I seldom have potatoes around anymore so will have to buy some to put underneath.
Am trying to use up a lot of frozen stuff I obviously bought in an optimistic mood. Freezers were overloaded and could not open for ice for drinks.
By reading net I discovered my favorite French vintner Joseph Drouhin is now an American vintner as well in Oregon. Have you drunk any American reds by Drouhin?
Goal is to cook big pieces of meat to work at emptying freezer. There is a pork roast and a turkey or turkey breast too. I think there’s an entire boneless pork loin as well. I did not intend to eat these alone obviously.
Plan is to feed my help of course but perhaps label and freeze precooked meats as a convenience food? I must have been intending to feed a number of people or cut these into smaller pieces? Who knows.
It came out well. I did use canned potatoes. I use potatoes so seldom that typically four pounds of a five-pound bag will go bad before I use them.
I have not had the Drouhin. I will see if it is available in this area.
Apparently not. Although I did find that this one is. 🙂
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And this…
http://www.sassybitchwine.com/Cabernet_Sauvignon/imag004.jpg
One of my fellow managers was given a bottle of the latter by her VP for Christmas one year. I gave her a suggestion for a wine she could have given him, but unfortunately I cannot repeat it here.
The French Drouhin wines are all superb. They were really nice people too. It seems they are in fourth generation now and currently own the company that once represented them, established vineyards on West coast. I will go look in Tulsa as well.
My favorite reds. I christened Stella with one of their Beaujolais Villages. And drank some.
Drinking a mediocre Italian sparkling white, dry and not too fruity.
‘Joseph Drouhin is now an American vintner as well in Oregon.’
Bass Pale Ale [English] is now also bottled in the states, and Guinness Stout [Irish] is now bottled in Canada. Both seem identical to the OW products. I happen to like bottled Guinness better than draft.
Peace,
Not sure I can copy this one but I will try. There is a label from New Zealand called Thorny Rose which has now also migrated to Oregon with extensive varietals, all under identical Thorny Rose labeling. I had bought the NZ label and now Oregon one as well. The Oregon ones were so so but not impressed with NZ ones too much.
But the label is beautiful and a joke about me, a Thorny Rose. Labels have become instrumental in selling wine, like the bitch ones.
Nope, not linking here.
There are liners to place in crock pots before cooking to ease the cleanup. The ones I tried worked pretty well. Nothing stuck to the pot and cleanup was quick.
Just cut up any veggies you want to add and cook them with the roast. Gives a wonderful taste to the meat.
I think I own some of those liners. I thought about them when I read that post. I will look in paper and bags locker for some. Or cook traditionally in a pot on stove top or in oven. Threw Skipper out into breezeway and moved frozen roasts out of reach of Voodoo and Charlie. Dickens can’t reach a counter top without a ladder!
Jackie: Looks like the most common answer to your “where did everybody go” was outside to enjoy fall. I suspect that another answer might have been “as far away from election coverage as possible.” Again, give thanks that you do not live in a swing state!
TR and other slow-cooker users: We highly recommend Reynolds Slow Cooker Liners for easier clean-up. Another tip, start your food on High and switch to Low after about an hour and a half (assuming you’re home to do that); adjust the time to about halfway between what the recipe says for High vs Low. The cooker we got as a wedding present in 1978 had a setting that did that automatically – the new ones, even the programmable ones, don’t.