I'm so sorry hun! Any chance of another area? I can't remember if you applied for disability and are waiting on it or not. Prayers that you'll find something soon, or something great will happen for you.
Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Five
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Yes, I am. And, I'm very grateful.
My grandmother and I used to eat Braunschweiger on crackers. Back then, I didn't like onions yet. I was a kid. My grandmother also made really, really good liver. (And, of course, fried chicken.)
HEY!! Don't be talking about my soccer like that!
If it's cooked correctly, there will be no snot.
Man, ya don't boil okra! Ya smother it....with onions and tomatoes.
I don't know who cooked okra for you, but they sure didn't do it right if it tasted like that.
Guess I'm not human than.
Liver and onions....YUM!!I'll eat it, but I AIN'T vaping it!!
Hang in there,Rusell!!
Why eat something that you have to dance around how you cook it just to choke it down. Way too much like work and food shouldn't be work!
Rus,
Bit of advise. I lost my job a couple of years ago. I was lucky enough to get another in the same company, but I put in for 98 jobs, had 3 interviews and only one offer.
Don't get discouraged if you can help it,
get a professional to write your resume. ( I used Angie's list to get a good one),
put in for every job that even slightly resembles something you know about,
dress for your interviews in the best cloths you have
before an interview, spend the night before researching the company and know what they are about so you can seem knowledgeable about them.
and most importantly, 5 minutes before going in think of 10 things that make you a great person.
I know I lost one job because I was feeling useless having lost my job and it telegraphed into the interview.
Keep positive to the outside world and you should have a job within 2 months!
Bit of advise. I lost my job a couple of years ago. I was lucky enough to get another in the same company, but I put in for 98 jobs, had 3 interviews and only one offer.
Don't get discouraged if you can help it,
get a professional to write your resume. ( I used Angie's list to get a good one),
put in for every job that even slightly resembles something you know about,
dress for your interviews in the best cloths you have
before an interview, spend the night before researching the company and know what they are about so you can seem knowledgeable about them.
and most importantly, 5 minutes before going in think of 10 things that make you a great person.
I know I lost one job because I was feeling useless having lost my job and it telegraphed into the interview.
Keep positive to the outside world and you should have a job within 2 months!
Hang in there Russ. I have no advice other than what has already been offered, but I hope things improve for you soon.
No dancing, it's fried just like you'd bread & fry chicken, or green tomatoes, or cat fish. Just faster.Why eat something that you have to dance around how you cook it just to choke it down. Way too much like work and food shouldn't be work!
Hello ... it's now my 1 week sick-adversary. I was thinking of actually trying to eat something this morning ... but after the last few pages of okra, snot, liver, etc. I've lost my appetite. Maybe I settle for a cup of coffee ... haven't had a morning cup for a week ... perhaps that's why I'm sick ... need more coffee.
Yikes - I looked at myself in the mirror this morn and my eyes are so bloodshot I can't see any white at all. My eyes just don't want to focus which is one of the reasons I haven't been around the porch at all. Maybe I should do another 'eye-closeup-shot' for Willie.
I do finally feel on the 'mend' though. Feeling better than yesterday, and yesterday I felt better than the day before. One day at a time.
Yikes - I looked at myself in the mirror this morn and my eyes are so bloodshot I can't see any white at all. My eyes just don't want to focus which is one of the reasons I haven't been around the porch at all. Maybe I should do another 'eye-closeup-shot' for Willie.
I do finally feel on the 'mend' though. Feeling better than yesterday, and yesterday I felt better than the day before. One day at a time.
Glad you're finally over the hump, Mike, & very sorry we cost you your appetite! Try some toast, you need to eat something!
Just pop a whole boiled one in your mouth and swallow - slides right down, no chewing necessary.
I'm with you. Black Eyed Peas taste like dirt. I haven't eaten dirt since I was two.
You've just never had blackeyed peas cooked right.
Y'all need a true Southern Cook to fix some if this stuff for you (and no, I'm NOT talking about Paula Dean).
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Sorry it turned into a book, but Here's my take on it:
I’ll eat anything that doesn’t try to eat me first (and if it does - just kill it, skin it, and grill it).
Liver-n-Onions smothered w/ gravy, sliced thin & served w/ mashed ‘taters on top
Pan sizzled Salt Pork (with cathead biscuits, grits & red-eye gravy)
Leftover-mashed-potato pancakes w/ homemade black molasses
Fried chicken Gizzards (or mountain oysters once in a great while)
Chitlins – only if done right (thoroughly boiled, drained, salted, battered, and deep fried)
Souse meat
Mud cat fillets
Raw Oysters – sans crackers w/ a little Tabasco (salty Apalachicola ‘sters preferred)
Frog Legs – battered w/ cornmeal and fried
Rattlesnake
Shark
Okra – any ol' way (sliced battered-n-fried, and whole or sliced & boiled in soups/stews/gumbos or pickled)
Persimmons (esp. persimmon jelly – make sure they’re well-ripened)
Fried Green Tomatoes
Beets
Rhubarb
Rutabaga
Brussels sprouts
Cauliflower
Turnip Greens (and/or roots, raw or cooked)
Raw turnip roots - salted to taste (my grandma used to peel ‘em for me and I’d eat ‘em whole, like an apple)
Collard Greens – boiled with a Hamhock and lotsa onion
Kale – cooked or raw on salads
Romaine lettuce – homegrown in a small plot just behind the kitchen window
Asparagus – fresh, young & tender (it grows wild behind our house next to the woods line)
Lima Beans
Butterbeans
Navy Beans
Field Peas
Blackeyed Peas
Crowder Peas
Pinkeye Purple Hull Peas
Grits - done right, and embellished with various goodies (grated sharp cheddar and/or bacon bits to name just two)
Leftover fried grits pancakes, also w/ black molasses
-and, yes, even-
Pickled Pigs feet
& Pickled eggs
Of course ALL of the above has to be cooked right, seasoned right, presented correctly, and served with the right accompaniments. (think - pepper jelly with peas, Jalapeño cornbread with turnips, collard greens, or peas, etc.)
My wife makes some killer cinnamon pickles from old (overgrown) cucumbers picked fresh from the garden, peeled, de-seeded with a spoon, and sliced into strips… they’re red, spicy/cinnamon-y, crispy, and delicious! Daughter's favorite condiment. And my son would fight ya if’n ya tried to take away his personal pint of pickled okra.
Pickled Okra = start with young pods, no longer than 2” max. Stuff washed whole okra pods, small sliced jalapeño peppers, and one garlic section into sanitized pint Mason jars, pour boiled white vinegar to 1/2" of top, seal lightly, and boil jars completely submersed in a canner pot for ~30 minutes. Remove with tongs, tighten rings, cool. Last step = If ya want to still have some by Thanksgiving - hide from my son! (btw, he’ll eat anything too)
Gotta go for now, gettin’ hongry!… I’m thinking yesterday’s leftover breakfast biscuits (made from scratch) and butterfly-ed and baked link smoked sausage with mustard.
Nom nom mmmmmm.
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Who's into hats?
I want to get me another one of these... usta have one in the early '70s when I had a '64 Triumph TR4-A.
I want to get me another one of these... usta have one in the early '70s when I had a '64 Triumph TR4-A.
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Don't use em. They're for protecting da brain. Ain't got nun.
And btw, there is a name for that type of hat but it eludes me. Anyone?
Drivers cap or "paperboy cap"... a good friend "back then" called mine an Apple Cap.
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Add a Tweed sports jacket over a white long-sleeve button-down, new (dark blue) jeans, nice but not overdone belt buckle, and Nacona or Justin cowboy boots... and I was good-to-go baby!
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