Posted on 08/28/2006 11:20:06 AM PDT by freepatriot32
My favorite simpler-than-stink potato microwave recipe -
chunk potatoes (with skin) and place in bowl with olive oil
microwave on high 6-8 minutes for 8 potatoes
let sit 2 minutes, top with pats of butter and dill weed, serve
The British add bread and call it a ploughman's supper
can I have the recipe ? please, pretty please ? I love garlic.
I was afraid of the mealiness of freezing taters. Unfortunately I do not have the ability to have a root cellar.
I have noticed this, and it sucks. A serious public health issue. Better for the environment, better for people's health, if there is a walkway and bikeway. Moreover, how can children go out and play if there is no footpath? These roads without footpaths are quite dangerous for the pedestrian.
Of course you can.........please FReepmail me to remind me to dig it out - I'm sorry but I'm just too tired to do the typing tonight.
Its a very simple recipe, with very few ingredients....garlic lightly sauted in butter, sugar, vinegar and pectin.
As long as there's beer with that, a ploughman's supper is SO for me.
I cannot believe how much money I save on meat by having an upright freezer in the laundry room. I would make room for one in just about any room in the house, if I had to.
And now I am going to start baking more snack type foods to save on the expensive granola bar scene. Unless I want to be baking 24/7, I have to make a lot at once and freeze it.
Finally, in extolling the joys of a stand-alone freezer: we take an afternoon and everyone makes a pan of lasagne. After chilling it overnight, I cut it into portions and freeze individually. Wonderfully delicious and so convenient to be able to pull out how ever many servings are needed. All kinds of casseroles and home-made prepared foods---soups, curries, meatloaf, meatballs, the list goes on-- can be made at a fraction of the storebought cost and frozen at home.
Squirrels got the tomatoes and dug up my onions. Rabbits ate my parsley, fennel, bean plants, young eggplants, turnips, collards, kohlrabi (okay...I got a fence that saved some beans, and the greens.) Heck, dang bunnies were even eating tmarigold buds. I planted some flowering tobacco and it's a wonder they haven't learned to wad a chaw by now.
I got peppers, though. Mostly because I planted the hot varieties.
Now cheese is a very good-for-you food that can stretch a dinner at not too much expense (unless you are getting really fancy).
And cheese keeps quite a long time unopened. So if a nice Mozz goes on sale, I stock up. Then I put a slab on the boys' lunch plate and suddenly their sandwich seems like a nice meal.
WHAT???
fm me with the recipe, if you please!!
I am very open-minded in regard to cheese. I like just about any cheese there is.
My jury is still out on goat cheese and Stilton, but I am sure that's because I've never had really really good varieties of either one.
Doesn't that sound incredible? I could eat garlic jelly with a spoon.
My local Wally World has started selling dried fruit in a new sort of baking section. It's quite reasonably priced.
The blueberries and cherries were wonderful in muffins, so I am hoping I can find a way to use them in a snack-type bar.
The packaged ones are very convenient, but I think even if I use those snack baggies and individually bag and freeze my homemade snacks, I will come out ahead pricewise (and, it goes without saying, nutrition-wise).
In Germany, many restaurants have a menu item called a "Grillteller." It's a platter of grilled mixed meats. That's what we do and it's wonderful.
As for the cooking show, yes, I've seen it.
And I've lived it. Sometimes some really wonderful meals come out of "what's in the fridge?" Funny, those nights it seems there's nothing for dinner also seem to be the nights we end up with huge amounts of food on the table--precisely b/c I think "okay, a little of this . . . some of that . . . oh, how about . . ."
Plant more marigolds around the garden - let the bunnies eat them.
Talcum powder, ground cayenne or other dried hot pepper sifted on and around the plants will also deter the bunnies.
Always. If you drink Woodchuck Apple it's a real meal, complete with fruit :)
LOL!!!
Now I have 3 of you!!!!
I'll get it to you all tomorrow - I just don't feel like the typing 2nite.
I tried that deer-off spray. I just think the varmints acquired a taste for cayenne, garlic, and putrified egg solids. The air gun is a fun solution, but I work days.
The fence pretty much solved the rabbit problem. I think I'm going to have to make fully enclosed cages for next year's tomatoes. I can do squash, though. The only things bothering the squash are the squash borers...and the heat.
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