It will come as a giant shock to you that I’m running a little behind here. Over the weekend, I was going to slip in a couple of 1991 strips from the first visitation of Harvey for those interested. Many of us, I imagine, have seen quite enough of Harvey. Of course, if you don’t want to see Harvey, you probably haven’t seen him at all. This is getting very existential. So, without further ado, I am going to post two old comic strips from the first appearance of Harvey. This short series led to the later send-up of the movie “Harvey,” which we saw in its entirely recently. It’s probably worth noting that Harvey’s appearance was one of the first times Arlo & Janis got, well… weird. OK! I promise, no more Harvey after today.
Yes, More Harvey!
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64 responses to “Yes, More Harvey!”
Heck, I even liked Car Talk! It was funny.
None of mine, Jackie, but I have heard of it, and it probably is from the mole influence. I can remember seeing a food show years ago about the best chili dogs, and there was one place featured that used cocoa in their chili, and I want to think it was in Indianapolis.
Another secret ingredient in a recipe that seems unlikely is using dark brown sugar in a very rich beef stew that has a lot of French influences. It does NOT make it sweet at all, but enhances the savory aspect.
Everybody go out and vote! If you do not you are giving up one of our great American freedoms.
Love, Jackie
Does this mean there was more to this Harvey series that we will not get to see? 🙁
Beg very hard.
Re voting: Mission accomplished.
Also, this veteran and, I’m sure others, will appreciate it. Seeing as how we made an investment in your freedom to vote, and all.
Got this link in an email from the Old Farmer’s Almanac and thought of the recent discussion here – http://www.almanac.com/blog/natural-health-home-tips/you-gotta-love-lentils
Do we have any villagers from New Mexico? There was a Mexican restaurant in Orlando 30+ years ago where the owners were from New Mexico. They claimed that many or most of the early priests in that area were from Italy rather than Spain; when the native cooks combined their usual ingredients with the priests’ family recipes the result was somewhat different from what we usually think of as “Mexican”.
Unfortunately they were ahead of their time as far as the popularity of very spicy food. I remember having the chile relleno on our first visit, then deciding to go with something tamer the next time. Turned out their lasagna also left me breathing fire. It was really good though.
Looks ~ the OF webcam will stay live but the prediction season is over, perhaps ’til spring. Now back to the top to see today’s comments. Peace, emb
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P.S. Any who want to check OF should copy the URL into their favorites, since I won’t be posting ‘OF due . . ..’
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Jimmy:
Please break that promise.
Good report from the transplant surgeon today. Nothing to do but wait, and wait some more. 🙂
A friend of mine who came from Ohio told me that good chili must have chocolate as one of the ingredients – guess they make it like that up there, but I have yet to try it. Also, I have a bunch of chipotle chiles left over after making Ruth Anne’s bean dip 😉 so I plan to use some the next time I make some chili – love spicy food!
And I was sad to hear of Tom Magliozzi’s passing too – his infectious laugh was always a day brightener!
Chili in the slow cooker. No chocolate but, I must confess, a bit of onion, some diced tomatoes, and lots of beans, both frijoles pintos and frijoles negros.
We used to spend a lot of time in New Mexico, an interesting and beautiful state. However……….New Mexican food in NO way resembles TexMex! It is spicy and hot and does not taste like TexMex either. They are proud of that actually and consider theirs to be correct and TexMex to be some kind of corruption of the cuisine.
Everything is served with chiles, green or red. Both are incredible heated sauces. After my kids first trip out there, it got to be a joke. “How do you want your pancakes? With green or red?”
In truth I used to love to visit during the chiles roasting period, the smell permeated the air. You’d stop at a gas station and there’d be a huge turning metal cage full of peppers roasting away. Of course, we were in a lot of small towns and not just on an interstate highway but local eateries were always my favorites.
Love, Jackie
Ghost, this year Oklahoma had constitutional amendments giving Veterans and their survivors some new tax breaks on property taxes. I do hope that passes because the way I read it, I would also benefit from the law perhaps? I never have done so but I could have a Purple Heart license plate apparently. It seemed not right to me, but that is just my own feelings. I think that should be reserved for those who truly served their country, the Veterans.
I keep trying to explain to my mother about VA benefits, which she cannot understand at all. I went back and reread some just to explain them to her, but she cannot remember. Should I make it to 93 I doubt I will either!
Love, Jackie
Speaking of Ohio, maybe you all can help me track down a recipe from my childhood. Have any of you heard of a Cincinnati sandwich? It was served open-faced on toast; the toppings included fried ham slices, raw sweet onion, scrambled eggs, and some sort of cream gravy with a lot of black pepper in it. I wasn’t that crazy about it as a child so didn’t pay that much attention to how it was made. It was not in any of my mother’s recipe boxes or books and, of course, by the time I discovered that it was too late to ask.
Jackie, the amendment you mentioned would apparently, if adopted, give surviving spouses of military personnel who die in the line of duty a homestead exemption on their property taxes, until which time the surviving spouse remarries. I’m not sure about Oklahoma, but I know that in some states all persons 65 or older are automatically granted homestead exemption on property taxes. If Oklahoma is one of them, it appears the amendment, if adopted, would apply only to surviving spouses who are under the age of 65.
I know I’ve posted some variation of this previously. Although I like spicy foods, the spiciness can easily be overdone. Eating something so hot that tears run from my eyes and snot runs from my nose is in no way what I would consider a pleasing gustatory experience.
Ruth Anne, that must have been a local variation of some other sandwich. I searched several large food data bases for “Cincinnati sandwich”, with no luck. (Because, darn it, it sounded pretty good just the way you described it.) The gravy sounded like what around here we’d call sawmill gravy or sausage gravy.
What it makes me think of is Eggs Benedict prepared by someone who didn’t have an English muffin or Canadian bacon or Hollandaise sauce and didn’t know how to poach eggs, but did have toast and ham and cream gravy and knew how to scramble them. 🙂
Ghost – I agree with your call on the gravy, very similar to sausage gravy but without the sausage. Maybe my dad got the idea from someone from Cincinnati, someone he met via amateur radio perhaps, and named it after him – none of our family was from that area. Eggs Benedict seems to me to be something you deliberately plan to make. The Cincinnati sandwich was more something that you could throw together out of leftovers for an easy Sunday supper.
Just reflecting on regional cooking during dinner with mom. I had run out of grits for her and was in grocery, went to aisle and no grits. Not a grit! I prefer boxed, not little bags, that cook fast but not instant. Not a grit of any kind! It is one thing I will eat with mom although I prefer them with some kind of bacon, ham, cheese, even garlic and green onions. She likes plain.
But weird thing was I realized no restaurants here offer them at all. We eat out pretty often for breakfast if I can get her out, as it is easier than me producing big country breakfast all the time. I know when I was in sales traveling the country/South you could get pretty decent grits anywhere in South.
Here they automatically bring you the sausage gravy and biscuits unless you specify not to. Yet, I had never eaten such a thing until I was way up in age. No one served them that I remembered. Now they seem ubiquitous.
Eggs Benedict, by the way, in all permeations, along with omelets, are still my favorite egg based breakfasts. They were/are so popular among my kids that I had enough egg poaching cups to do a breakfast for 8 with eggs benedict all at once!
Love, Jackie
Jackie: 🙂
http://www.amazon.com/Quaker-Quick-Grits-lb-bags/dp/B001GBAZP2/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1415158675&sr=8-7&keywords=quaker+quick+grits
15 # of grits, Ghost! My mother will have to indeed live to be at least 100 years old and me to cook them!
Although that is the ones I like, in truth. I am going to have to break down and go look at WM probably. I hate to shop there.
Motley Fool just confirmed what I already know. Dollar General won the annual market basket derby, with the lowest cost basket of goods, followed by WM. Target was most expensive, amazingly more expensive. Dollar General also won the profitability race but I knew that too. Small and lower staffing beats big and expensive to stock and staff.
OK, I used to sell to supermarkets and even box stores, so old interests are hard to get rid of. A small Piggly Wiggly or a small Jitney Jungle, staples of the South, were incredibly profitable if well run.
Love, Jackie
Grits are a regional item. Many years ago, when I briefly lived in Alaska, there was not a “grit” to be had. Nor self-rising flour. Nor stone ground cornmeal. That is probably not the case now. However, I was recently in the Charlotte area, and the grocery store (a chain, I tried two different stores) did not have any cornmeal, period! I was flabbergasted! They had plenty of corn meal mix, seafood breading, etc. but no plain ol’ cornmeal, and no place on the shelf designated for such a product. I even spoke to the customer service person; she seemed slightly bemused but did not seem to realize how remarkable it was to have a grocery store in the SOUTH, with no cornmeal. Apparently, she is a very efficient employee, because the following week, the cornmeal had materialized. 🙂
Jackie, I just saw a comparison review of Aldi’s vs Walmart on pricing for their own branded products. Aldi was about 20 percent cheaper than Walmart.
Ruth Anne, even if you don’t find your sandwich here, I bet you can find something you will like: http://www.mrbreakfast.com/recipe_collection.asp?subcategoryid=3&morepics=1
Mark, I am huge fan of Aldi’s, thanks to that bargain hunting daughter I raised. She buys most of her groceries there, but is lucky to have one only a couple blocks from her house. I have to drive to Tulsa to find any! A far trip. I was going to stop in Monday but the doctor’s news upset me too badly to shop, even in the produce department of Aldi’s, which I love.
Now that is one efficient and low cost to run and stock grocery chain!
Was just reading the “My Cousin Vinny” summary of the testimony about the quick cooking vs. traditional grits cooking, still a great movie about Alabama which I love.
By the way, Mark, “Petals From the Past” in Jemison, AL is a treasure in my opinion and I am sure is connected to the Jemison mansion in Tuscaloosa. I haven’t looked but I bet it is same family and somehow I remember some Jemison’s still in nursery/florist business as well?
I think I will leave Mike to election returns and rejoin the cats.
Good night.
Love, Jackie