Well, Mookie, thanks for the update on lard in the grocery stores. All Mama ever used it for was frying chicken, steaks, pork chops. The only time she used Crisco, was when she didn't have any/or enough lard left. I've always only used Crisco shortening.
Since Larry is out the firehouse(?) grilling chickens, guess we'll make do with some grilled chicken from our grill out back, here at the Cafe/diner. And, for anyone who doesn't have a taste today for grilled chicken, we also have some fried chicken.
Side dishes: corn, brussels sprouts, green beans, apple sauce, cole slaw, garden salad, mashed taters w/gravy
And, to commemorate National Fire Protection Week, there's some chili for anyone who wants some. (Mild, of course, no spicy hot today, unless you want to add some hot sauce to your chili.)
Desserts today: apple and peach cobblers w/ice cream, and chocolate cake and a spice cake w/sour cream icing.
grampaw pettibone wrote:Mookie, I can remember my mother used to buy lard by the 5 gallon can, and can also remember seeing them in the store and helping her to get it into the house. One day, I stuck my finger in it and took a taste. That was the last time for that effort! Think tho, that back then, people ate lard and fatback, eggs and all kinds of grease, and they died of old age in their 90s some of them. Nowadays, with our crisco, mazola oil, broccoli and egg beaters, folks are keeling over in their 40s..... There must be some corelation. TTFN
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grampaw pettibone wrote:Mookie, I can remember my mother used to buy lard by the 5 gallon can, and can also remember seeing them in the store and helping her to get it into the house. One day, I stuck my finger in it and took a taste. That was the last time for that effort! Think tho, that back then, people ate lard and fatback, eggs and all kinds of grease, and they died of old age in their 90s some of them. Nowadays, with our Crisco, Mazola oil, broccoli and egg beaters, folks are keeling over in their 40s..... There must be some correlation. TTFN
While we are on he subject of what we remeber as good food to live with besides the occasional squash (or corn)casserole let us not forget the following from grandmaws (and my mothers for a time)kitchen:
Cracklin cornbread, bread sticks, hoe cake, yeast rolls, summer squash, newt potatoes, turnip greens with pepper sauce and potlicker to go with fired chicken, pork chops, ham, roast, quail or even rabbit.
Food fit for a king
PL
Mookie: thanks for jogging my memory!! And I even have Aimee's birthday listed on the birthday calendar!
AIMEE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Hope you've had a very happy one, so far.
And Mookie, I'll join you in a slice of chocolate cake.
Well, we sold all the chicken (tried to save some for the Cafe, to no avail).
I used to help bbq the chicken, now I'm the guy at the door, collecting the money. Must be they trust me more with the money than the chicken.....
The riders on the Wine Train last night got a nice sunset, but I didn't have my camera out and missed it. After we ran the locomotive around the train, we passed over the Moose River again, and this time, while it was substantially darker, and the train was in motion, I did get one shot. It should have been shot with a tripod, but the effect from the train in motion was interesting, too:
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
.....Our Frankfort line of NS has been very busy these past 6 or so hours. Very unusual at that time of the evening. Normal has 2 or 3 trains but seems one after the other clears this evening....I'm wondering if there as been a derailment, something that might have another route clogged that is sending traffic this way......? Or is it possible the grain shipments are just that heavy right now....
Quentin
Good Monday morning, everyone. Hope you all had a very nice weekend. We're currently at just about 60 degrees this morning, some outlying areas are in the mid 50s; going for a high of 84 today. Happy Columbus Day!
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are ready to go.
On the breakfast/warmer bar this morning: turkey bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, hash browns, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy, boiled rice (put some in a bowl, add some sugar, and milk),toast, bagels and bear claws. (Can anyone tell that I woke up hungry this morning?)
Wishing you all a very beautiful morning, and have a great day.
good morning
cool start here in nw ohio.going to be a nice day today.maybe after a nap might go look at csx.
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
......60 degrees here in our mid western part of the world this morning. Almost clear skies with some high cirus clouds only. Looks like a bright sunny day for the most part and will be around 80 degrees.
Best wishes to all starting the new week....From the info I'm seeing the Asian and European markets have soared over night....so must go get MSNBC up and running. Should mean a much higher opening for the US market.....Could we have hit the bottom.....!
Nice! A steady rain and about 60. Good soaking before we go into winter will be nice.
Mutt - got the bowling before but had to leave it on my "other" puter when I left in a hurry. Glad to have it again. Still can't break 100!
Quentin - find it ironic that market goes down like a rock and gas prices do too? Still working on a correlation, but I am almost postive there is one! Can't take it all at once, maybe?
Need to find an umbrella and go out and wring out the squirrels.
Mook
Good day.
CW, would I be able to get a piece of pumpkin pie this evening on the way home from a family dinner?It is our Thanksgiving today.
Tomorrow (Tueday) we are having a national election.
Take care, everyone.
Dale, you must have been reading my mind! Today is your lucky day. There is pumpkin pie on the menu today, along with pumpkin cookies.
Today's menu:
1. Roast, taters, carrots, shellie/green beans, broccoli, cole slaw, homemade biscuits, beef gravy
Today's desserts:
1. Chocolate cake
2. Pumpkin cookies (and used a pumpkin cookie cutter)
3. Pumpkin pie
4. Yellow cake w/caramel icing
5. Ice cream
Sun has been out for about a half hour now. Before that, it was overcast all morning. Supposed to get to a high of 84 this afternoon.
You all enjoy your meal, and have a good afternoon.
.....Sure Jen, Gas prices should have gone down much more than they have so far....Using round figures 40% drop in crude prices, and gasoline should have followed {according to what they've been telling us now for some time}, which would put us in the general range of $2.50 / gal. We all know that isn't happening in most places.
Just this morning our prices went from 2.99 here to 2.91. Down in Indy, roughly 55 miles south....2.69. Supply and demand...Baloney.
But check out the market.....A good day.....In another 15 min. it will close and looks like over 600 point gain. {As it appeared a few min. ago}.
Edit: Closes at 936 points up.....!!!!!!!
.....Jen, was in your state this afternoon.....{by phone}.....securing some insurance changes....Omaha.
Also just looking on a map, noted we passed right thru your fair city {close}, on I-80 many years ago on an auto test trip to the mile high Denver city......{M C's land}.
afternoon
a beautiful day here in nw ohio.Was mowing the yard and brown van pulls up.My wife ordered some train things from a catalog and matthew kept quiet about!!! quite a surprise for our anniversary.matt also got a "super" sticker on his last spelling test too.Cw I can help clean out the fridge for wednesday for the computer change.Its nice that Inspector Bergie and crew keep this forum running.Time to get cleaned up.
Q: Gas here at $2.67 in two places I saw.
That's less that a gallon of milk. Can't do without either!
Got my 401K on a 3x5 recipe card. Guess they didn't think it was worth putting in on big paper. When it comes on a rock through the window, will have to seriously think about changing something!
I-80 - we used to be flyover country. Now we are still flyover and drive really fast past it.
Lots of feathers up and down that highway - from the fastest chicken in Colorado!
J
$2.67 at Hays, KS... $2.99 at Cincy and Peoria....$3.42 at North Platte...$3.20 at Walnut, IA... $2.87 in Columbia, MO....$2.83 here in Denver .......................all since Wednesday
Crawled in in here at 1:30pm today.....have seen a DumpTrain working, the carcass of an NW-5 (BN 994), an S-1 carcass (BRN 71), a Lima 1000SW (CUT25),an 0-6-0 NYC switch engine rust bucket, an S-1 in NYC paint switching, a RS-20 LeTourneau heavilly modified GP7.....but not Mook's mystery engine....and I zoomed through Lincoln at 1:30 Sunday afternoon......busy week.
Lurch thanks Western NE for washing the bugz off, but not the electrical problem.
Good Tuesday morning, everyone. Very pleasant temps here this morning; temp is around 66 degrees, w/hardly any breeze blowing. If any of you watch Good Morning America, you'll see their meterologist, Sam Champion, broadcasting the weather from Louisville, this morning. Louisville is hosting the National Weather Service Convention this week. They're right by the Ohio River.
Mudchicken, good to know you all made it home safely, and didn't land in any traps along the way.
Coffee, juices and our other morning beverages are ready. And on the breakfast/warmer bar this morning: turkey bacon, bagels, bear claws, sausage, scrambled eggs, biscuits & gravy and tater tots.
Only have two people outside waiting for Tuesday Produce. I see the sisters are back this week. You all have a good morning, and I'll see you all later.
.....67 degrees and partly cloudy skies starts our day here....Possible rain later today. Still really nice for mid October.
Mild start here in nw ohio this morning.rain possibly this afternoon.matt is on the bus and the trash is at the curb.Cw thanks for breakfast.time for a nap.
Looks like we've been a tad bit slow this morning, here in the Cafe. Tuesday Produce went fairly well today. We only had 66 people. On the truck today: potatoes, romaine lettuce, diced green peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, packets of butter and maple syrup.
I've got the first round of our Tuesday Mexican Fiesta on the warmer bar. On today's menu:
1. Burritos (beef, beef & bean & beef enchilada style)
2. Tacos (both soft shell and hard shell)
3. Fajitas
4. Chimichangas
5. Shredded lettuce with diced tomatoes
Hope you all have a very pleasant afternoon. Think I'm going to go take a nap. For some reason, I'm really sleepy this afternoon.
Been thinking about work lots lately...I'm just glad that I have a job! Seems some folks in town feel that they have a "right" to have a $100k salary for doing nothing and are pretty vocal about it. I can put food on the table and keep the roof over our heads. It's better than nothing!
Swung past the CN Neenah yard this morning. All that was moving was two locals: one NB and one SB. Saw an IC Scale Test Car (IC 100120) which was a first for me. I haven't seen one in person before. On the way home I decided to stop by my wife's work and drop off some flowers and candy for her.
Thanks for the burritos CW. I'll pop back in later!
Dan
CNW 6000 wrote: On the way home I decided to stop by my wife's work and drop off some flowers and candy for her.
Special Occasion? (Rhetorical question).
Reminds me of the old saw - "What makes a woman's mind work?
"Giving her flowers for no apparent reason....."
Paid $3.259 for gas last night - about the lowest in the area from what I've seen. The way it's been dropping, though, the end is not in sight yet.
I'm even more encouraged by what this might mean for my fuel oil bill this winter.
.....Within the past couple of hours here in Muncie, I noted gasoline @ $2.89. Glad to see it slowly dropping but they are still way behind what crude has dropped. Indianapolis is cheaper, yesterday...heard it was in the range of $2.69.
They were reporting gas in Bowling green ohio at 2.45 and here its down to 2.85. I went and caught some KCS belles this afternoon while matt was in school.matt was glad to see them on the computer.time to get some supper and get ready for work.
Dan, you're welcome! Will clean the fridge out after awhile, and then restock it in the morning, while everything's being updated around here.
Other than being two doors up at the Center this morning, haven't been anywhere to check local gas prices here. And, I don't believe I have heard any local prices quoted on our local news today. Maybe they did, and I missed it.
And, I've refreshed everything on the warmer bar, for tonight's Mexican Fiesta.
Joe, be sure to get your containers for work tonight.
Everyone enjoy, and have a great evening.
CNW 6000 wrote: Been thinking about work lots lately...I'm just glad that I have a job! I can put food on the table and keep the roof over our heads. On the way home I decided to stop by my wife's work and drop off some flowers and candy for her.
Been thinking about work lots lately...I'm just glad that I have a job! I can put food on the table and keep the roof over our heads.
On the way home I decided to stop by my wife's work and drop off some flowers and candy for her.
CNW:
If you want to know the truth about what is important I think you just covered it.
I hope your wife smiled at you when you dropped by and she then gave you a promise in her eyes.
What you did a lot of the high ticket folks don't do, will not do, and in a lonely moment can only dream about doing or having the wealth that you just described.
And as an old boss of mine used to say, BETTER THAN WELL DONE,
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