Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Five

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Robert Cromwell

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We used to chew on rhubarb stalks as a kids...as well as eat gooseberries and chokecherries......all of them very, very tart. And yes the leaves of rhubarb are highly poisonous...;)
Gooseberries when green are perfect sour.
 

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oh wow, didn't know that. Good thing I didn't bite those. Dad had a bad habit of cookin stuff and not tellin me what it was til after I'd tasted it, cuz he figgered if it sounded weird, I'd just decide I didn't like it. that's how I ended my one and only time trying lamb. Thought they were just itty bitty pork chops! lol Don't remember what they tasted like, but I remember they were the best tasting "pork chops" I'd ever had. :lol:
Ha! After my last wedding we took the wedding party, all family, to eat at Louie's On The Lake. At the time it was a very nice restaurant on Clear Lake. Husband's youngest daughter was 4 & a picky eater in that if she didn't recognize a dish, she wouldn't eat it. I took the kids through the buffet & let them get what they wanted. She got the usual veggies, but we weren't coming across a meat she wanted to try. Until the very end of the table when she spotted a big pile of... chicken legs! She was smitten. She didn't know one place had that many chicken legs! I stopped the server from speaking, winked, & told him to give her those chicken legs. She went back for sevonds because they were a little small. On her 13th birthday we took her out to eat & she wanted to go back to that place. She actually remembered that big pile of chicken legs d wanted to see if they still served them like that. Sadly, after many years in business it had closed. But we went to her second choice & finally told her about that 2 plates of frog legs she'd eaten.
 
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I can really only think of one veggie I don't like, & that's beets. Of course there are probably a lot I've never had or heard of. I've never had rutabega. (however you spell it. Apparently my phone has never had it either, since it had no suggestions.)

Boil and mash it like you would potatoes. Actually, if you mix it with some mashed potatoes it tastes like cauliflower.
 

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lol y'all can have the liver. Can't stand it any kinda way ya do it. Can't even stand the smell of it cookin. When I was a kid, my 1/2 sister had 3 small round cans of sandwich spreads, so one day she made deviled ham sammiches.....that was pretty good. Next day she made some other kind, forget what, but that was pretty good. Next day it was liverwurst. Dummy me doesn't make the connection that it's made from liver..... :facepalm: it certainly lived up to the name......it was the wurst!! :lol:
 

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Never knew you could eat them raw. But at least I got them down the maw. 30% daily requirement of vitamin C!!!

Don't think I've ever had a cooked turnip, well, yes I have if you call cubing it up and adding it to veggie beef soup. I just peal and eat 'em. Just don't want to get old or really big ones because they get woody.
 

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Smothered liver & onions are delicious!. A little cafe next door to us makes th once a week. Mom & I go about once a month just for that!
Yer fired! ;) The onyunz kill the taste. :D Kinda like limburger n' raw onyunz. Once ya get past the smell... well...
I wood like to know tho, why it smells so amazing cooking yet tastes NOTHING like it smells.
 

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Don't think I've ever had a cooked turnip, well, yes I have if you call cubing it up and adding it to veggie beef soup. I just peal and eat 'em. Just don't want to get old or really big ones because they get woody.
Don't like Woo...

Never mind.
 

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Dennis.....have you heard of the crockpot liners?? Makes cleaning the crock pot super easy. Also makes pouring leftovers into a bowl super easy. Pick up the liner.....put it in the bowl, and just pick up a bottom corner, and let it all spill into the bowl as you lift the liner up from the bottom.

Reynolds Slow Cooker Liners 4 ct
I swear by those crock pot liners. At my local Walmart they are on the bottom shelf in the plastic bag section (as in like Ziplock).

love beets, especially pickled. Never had rutabagas either though. Only had rhubarb once, and that was when I was about 10.......saw it in the fridge and thought it was some kinda giant red celery....so I took a bite. :blink: Never ever eat raw rhubarb!!!
Flame suit on - I like liver, beef fried with lots of onions or chicken liver - I make a mean Jewish style chopped liver and lamb (traditional family Easter dinner), asperguts ;), okra (especially fried, pickled or in GUMBO), and brussel sprouts. Even black eyed peas cooked right. Now beets and lima beans - you can have my share. As for rhubarb - strawberry rhubarb pie, hot with some vanilla ice cream, oooo yum!

PS, hubby gave me 2 jars of Amish Strawberry Rhubarb preserves for Christmas cuz I got some when I was in Lancaster PA last year and love it.
 

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As for rhubarb - strawberry rhubarb pie,
I would like to try this sometime......but not enough to make one. Have never seen it at a restaurant, or knew anyone that made em. Then again, strawberry pie uncooked, seems like a much better thing to do with the strawberries. Or strawberry shortcake!

now waiting patiently for dave to post his strawberry shortsnake pic again. hehehe
 

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yep.

i can forgive people who like brussel sprouts or asparagus. ".... forgive them, for they know not what they do"

but... enjoying liver (of all things) should not be a human enterprise. {{{shudders}}}


I love liver...liver n onions, and


CHICKEN LIVERS


with collard greens...yummy....
 

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jup! peel em, slice em, lil bit of salt, and yumm yumm yumm try it that way if you're given anymore of em. Totally different taste than cooked.


yup...slice em up the thickness of potato chips....yummy...
 

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Liver and onions....good, as well as liver and bacon...;) Liverwurst or braunschweiger with horseradish......great sandwiches....so there you are....different strokes folks...:D

Braunschweiger & onion sandwiches are great!
 
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