AMY you are a tough Lady doing wash on line thi time of year. carfule you do not take cold.

Lloyd

Good morning, Gloria.  With 34° do you have your geemogotchees out?  I used to fix stuffed acorn squash--haven't done so in ages.  I stuff mine with sausage.  I really dislike the time changes.  Wish they'd pick either DST or ST and keep in year around.

Amy--Good morning.  Your hands must get very cold hanging clothes out in your cold weather.  I hope your husband continues to do well with his recovery.

Good morning, Lloyd.  I know keeping your machinery running takes lots of time.

Bis i am with you on time changes. I see no mareits in it,

Lloyd

we all know our grand's and g great grand's are great fun. yesterday when Nicole was here helping me with computer  had her children with her ; Braxton is coming three years old. we keep a candy dish on the hutch,normally on bottom shelf in reach,but when the young are here it gets raised to a higher level so they cant over eat.  Braxton went over there and walked back and forth untill he figured out it was up . he got grma by hand and led her over by it and pointed to it and whispered please. so he thought his  Mother wouldn't hear and say No. I sure laughed. and gram over ruled mom. he got candy.

Lloyd

Hi everyone on an overcast Saturday morning with mild temperature here in South Carolina.  I awoke at 4:30 this morning and wasn't able to go back to sleep.  About 6 I picked up my phone and started reading the email and then the postings here and in the Seniors and Friends and other discussions that I follow.  Pat got up early this morning and have fixed her a breakfast of scrambled eggs with ham, cheese green onions and peppers.  This was a large breakfast. 

This evening we are planning on going to Pizza Hut for our main meal of the day. Pat likes the chicken wings and I will probably have a pizza or pasta dish.  I plan on having an easy day today as yesterday turned out to be very busy.  We did get the casserole dish made and it is in the freezer until Wednesday morning when I will take it to the church.  I plan on watching college football this afternoon and taking a nap.  Not an exciting day but one I am ready for. 

Joan, no I don't have a chef's apron.  Think I am aways from being ready for it. 

Hal, your gas is cheaper than ours.  The last fill up I had here last week was $2.00/gallon.  I also hope Pat finds enough recovery so that she can do a few things.

Patricia, what screen grab program do you use?

June, nice to read you had such a good time with your family although expect you were beat when you got back to your apartment.  I hope Dan and his wife got through L.A. without too much trouble.   

Lloyd, I was able to see the picture by also just clicking on them.  Those are beautiful babies and that was certainly a proud father.  I hope they bring much joy to your family.  Your little grandson knew great grandmother couldn't resist the request. 

JaneS, your weather sounds delightful.  It did get a little warm here yesterday but much better than in the 90s.

JaneS, do you can your vegetable soup?  I don't mind soup or chili the whole year round although agree it is particularly good during the winter months. 

Gloria, I know what you mean about cutting into the acorn squash.  Once I got the knife started I had no further problems.  We really enjoyed eating it after it had baked in the oven. 

Joan, I am with you on the Daylight Savings Time.  It won't be long before we switch again.   

LARRY, I do can the vegetable soup and there's always enough of it to give some to the kids for Christmas.  We have an outreach committee project where people donate 4 quarts of soup on their choice of the first Sunday of the month and it is sold between the two church services.  I do my bit for this project and there are people who order my vegetable soup ahead.  This group of people is referred to by other church members as "The Order of the Golden Ladle"  It's kind of fun and helps the Community Outreach program!

Good Saturday morning to all the friends here.  And a good morning to you, Joan.

I have not checked in here for a couple days.  I have been trying to limit my time "sitting" at the computer.  My legs have been swelling and giving me a fit for a few days, so I figured it was from sitting so long at the computer.  So, I have been setting my timer for a certain amount and when it goes off,  I get up and try doing something else.  It is really amazing how quickly the time goes by and you hardly know that you have been sitting so still for several hours. 

I know I have missed out on some of  the activities of a lot of you. I hope all is well with everyone.

I plan on going out for dinner this evening with one of my son's and grandson.  We are going to a favorite place that serves really delicious "sour beef and dumplings".  Some of you will know it as "sauerbrauten" .  I used to make it for many years, but we found this restaurant that makes it "almost as good as mine" so we have been going there for a few years now. It was my husband's favorite meal and I used to make it for his birthday every year and have his whole family. Used to be about 15 for dinner.  Not really that difficult to make..........just very time consuming.  Haven't made it for a long time now that we have found this restaurant.  Looking forward to going. Will be nice to catch up with my son and grandson.

Have a good day.

Joy

Lloyd--Cute how your great grandson managed to get some candy.

Good morning, Larry.  Maybe you aren't ready for a chef's apron, but your meal preparation skills have certainly multiplied.  I do dread changing time soon.

Janie--Your church's outreach project is commendable.  "The Order of the Golden Ladle" is catchy.

Good morning, Joy.  My husband's favorite meal was sauerbrauten, too.  His mother made it often for all those growing boys.  I'd never had it until we married.  His mother invited us one night when they were having it.  Nope--didn't like it, so I told husband when he wanted it to go to his mother's house. 

Good Morning Everyone!

Well this old week is about finished, never to return.  And all this talk about food, well my mouth is watering.

Janie, I will make the cornbread to go with that soup.  One thing I do love is good old fashion veggie soup, actually more like hash, when I have made it.  I cook the meat slow and long and it really just falls apart in the soup and I don't scrimp on the veggies and like Larry said, on a cold day, hmmmmmm, good.

Wonder why I never ate any sauerbrauten when I was stationed in Germany.  It sounds delicious.  One thing they had which I loved was their herb butter.  Especially with steak.  Don't know what the German name for it was.

Lloyd, these kids know how to work us old folks, don't they?  We are watching, well actually the IPad is watching, one of our twin grgrandsons this morning.  His brother is playing basketball and this one is autistic and always wants to run out on the court to play with his brother.  He is one great kid, until he get frustrated and then he gets really upset.  But all my grands can bring a smile to my face in a New York minute. Now I know why it was worth keeping my kids....LOL.....so I could enjoy the Grandkids.

Larry, like you I plan on watching some college football today.  Seems like they have all the games at night that I would prefer but don't want to push my luck.

Joanie, did you get all the mess cleaned up outside yet.  I suppose everyone is trying to get things back to normal.  I have some kind of problem with my grass in the back, cinch bugs maybe, got to get someone in to look at it and spray or something.  Or just ignore it and wait till spring.

I don't recall seeing anything posted from Amy this morning.  Hope no sitback for her hubby.

For all I may have missed, not intentional just need to get cleaned up.

Good morning everyone! I slept five hours last night, actually this morning and the way it's been going, that's an accomplishment!

Larry, I use both Screengrab and sometimes Capture page.They are both browser apps rather than independent programs, you can use both, independent or browser,  and direct the results to where you would like to store them.

I always first check to see what a screen grab program has that I want and independent customer reviews go a long way with my decision. Company sponsored reviews are usually pretty easy to spot. There have been programs or apps that I liked until I saw some customer reviews.

Generally, you would want a range of options, full page, section or just the visible part; and a range of choices as to where you may place the information and or photos,  where you want to store it.

I store everything in my Documents section of my Dropbox app, so it is on their bandwidth. That way, if I lose my computer or purchase new, that information is saved and retrievable.

I also have a 3T external drive that is a mirror of my computer. That drive is only connected to the computer when I am downloading, so it is never vulnerable for long

Good morning Hal, I'm lazy. Normally I premake the dry portions of cornbread or biscuits, bag them and just add the wet ingredients when I'm ready to use them. Cornbread from an iron skillet is always a pleasure, but particularly good in cold weather

Joan, it is 17 degrees out there but 80 in here. I never turn on my heat anymore as my apartment is surrounded. I do have a mini heater that I sometimes will turn on to heat the area I'm at if it gets really cold and the air comes in around my balcony doors. I haven't used the heater since February 2014, but it is there in case of need..

Angel, I like to make the cornbread muffings or corn sticks.  I love the crusty part better than anything.  With lots of butter or in cold milk......

Hal, yes to the butter, no to the cold milk as I am lactose intolerant. With parents from Missouri and Kansas, we ate tons of cornbread with beans, hot dogs or sausage, any type of main dish basically. Mom would also make a cornbread casserole. I have a cast iron skillet that is set up to make those corn sticks and yes, the crust is the best part. Have you tried jalapeno corn muffins?

http://damndelicious.net/2014/02/08/jalapeno-cornbread-muffins/

I'm told you can buy a cornbread mix, but that to me is like buying premade jello or premade hard boiled eggs.

halkel--I didn't have to clean up anything outside.  Only small tree limbs and palm fronds all over and the grounds crew will take care of those when they get to them.  You can have my share of corn muffins/sticks.  When I moved to Arkansas I was astounded to see people crumble up corn bread in a glass, pour in buttermilk and have it as a snack.

Angelface--Your building must be VERY well insulated if the outside temp is 17°, and it is 80° in your living quarters.

Joan, it is a dry 17 as we have little to no humidity here. Our plus 17 would be similar to your plus 40. It is the humidity that drives the chill.

I am on the fourth floor of a five-floor building and have apartments above, below and to each side of me. Many people, especially those "big, tough guys," have never turned on the heat.

This should be filed under the heading, "The things you learn!" I subscribe to a daily trivia email and today's question was, What color are you afraid of if you suffer from Xanthophobia?

The answer was,"Xanthophobia is fear of the color yellow. While, at first glance, this may seem like a foolish fear, it is real to the people impacted by this phobia. Xanthophobia derives from the Greek word “xantho”, meaning yellow and “phobos” which means fear. The common cause of this phobia is traumatic experiences involving the color yellow, like getting stung by a bee or perhaps getting hit by a yellow car. Sufferers would not eat cheese, mustard, bananas, lemons, or anything that is yellow."

Patricia, yep, have eaten alot of Jalapeno corn bread.  I never make it because the wife wont eat it.  My Mom and others of her era used the old cast iron for making corn bread.  They would get them smoking hot and pour the batter in and could hear it sizzle all over the house.  But they made a hot bread, biscuits or corn bread with almost every meal.  Light bread, or store bought bread, was used sometimes but mostly just as a standby bread.  You can buy the pre-mix here for cornbread but you can sure tell the difference in taste and texture.  I will mix my own, thank you.

My Mom was a great cook except for one thing, biscuits.  Bless her heart they always came out hard as a rock and you could break a plate if you dropped one on it.  She loved the tube biscuits, it saved her from having to try.....

They have some great tube biscuits now days.  Making good biscuits is an art in my humble opinion, one which my Grandfather could do to perfection.  And he didn't measure anything and could make them in 10 minutes not including baking time. 

By the way an old cowboy told me how you could cook Pinto beans in 10 minutes.  They way they did when working cattle.  You ground them in a coffee grinder and put them in boiling water.  I suspect that was the beginning of refried beans.  Although I have had many sandwiches made from beans after you mashed them up and put them between two slices of buttered bread, suspect you have to.

With a family of five and both parents working as well as hunting, fishing and utilizing an acre in a garden, all three of us girls were put to use.

Also my father, before WWII, briefly worked in a canning factory and would never eat anything out of a can after that. So we learned how to do all of that.

Nowadays I cheat by premixing all the dry ingredients to biscuits and cornbread, and I put the water, grease,flour,  and milk into a blender before putting it into the skillet for milk gravy. All my skillets & pots are either cast iron or copper based aluminum. I never measure because I'm always making them ever  since I was tall enough for the counter.

My guilty secret is piecrusts. I just can't make them. So like your mom and her biscuits, all my pies have store bought crusts.

Angelface, I can make the best pie crust you ever tasted....if no one is going to eat it but me.  If I have to take it somewhere, it's either hard as a rock or underbake.  You might say i'm erratic....that's what I say. 

My grandfather owned and operated a bake shop when he met my grandmother and he was like HAL's grandfather with the biscuits.  I didn't get that skill.  My sister did!  I can make them and they turn out pretty well but I follow a recipe EXACTLY!  He also made the best pie crust you ever ate and so did my mother and so does my sister.  She claims it is because I didn't pay attention and she's probably right.

I have the beef cooked for the veggie soup.  Tomorrow, I'll make the rest of it and maybe get some of it canned.  I'll finish the canning on Monday.  Sometime Monday, I'll put some in the Hidey Hole for supper.  HAL be sure the muffins are ready for Monday supper.

Gotta go feed everyone around here.  Make the rest of your day good.  Do whatever y'all wanna do!

Thank you for the TOSHIBA links, Shirley

Angelface--Thanks for the explanation about your temps.  Interesting about Xanthophobia.

halkel--One thing I do make good is biscuits.

Angelface--The girls in your family sure were put to use.  I can't make piecrust either.  I tried and tried and failed piecrust making 101.

Janie--At least some of the time you make good piecrust.  I check the "hidey hole" on Monday for soup.

You all are making me hungry! I love cornbread. I have an old cast iron skillet, which was my mother's, so once in awhile I make it by heating the pan in the oven first and then pouring in the batter. Like you said......nice and crispy. If I'm feeling lazy I use a glass pan. I especially love cornbread with chili or pea soup. Nice, thick, green pea soup! (Pea soup and johnnycake makes a Frenchman's belly ache!) In case anyone thinks I'm not being PC, my mother was French and taught that to me.

When we lived in Oklahoma a friend of mine made the best jalapeno cornbread! She used creamed corn in the recipe.

Hal - I have something in common with your mother.....never could make a decent biscuit. The first ones I made after we got married you could have used as hockey pucks.

Angel and Joan - Like you I have never been able to make a good piecrust. I love those you can buy in the refrig. section and just unfold!

My granddaughter sent a jar of her homemade zucchini relish home with us. I wrapped it in bubble wrap and in the center of our suitcase. It survived! I used to make zucchini relish long before she was born and love it on hot dogs in a roll. That was our lunch today. Yum!

Temp here at 6:00 p.m. is 81. We should be getting cooler temps soon.

I am just dragging in at nearly six p.m. I have been soooo tired all day today, Did a lot of sleeping, and stayed at home with just one trip down to the clinic to pick up some meds.

I had half the food Dori sent home with me, and I still feel full. I think I'll just pass on a standard supper and have a light meal. She is such a Gooood cook. I am still rejoicing in my memories of having all my kids together. Getting me in and out of the car, Dan handled me like I was made of fine china. I guess he doesn't realize I am still pretty agile, but how nice to be so cared for.

All this talk of food. I have to admit that my cornbread came out of a boxed mix. I feel I should hide my head in shame when you connoisseurs speaking about how you make it and eat it. I have a feeling it was more a South and Western type of food that where I was raised in Mn. We were into a lot of yeast breads, rolls, donuts, etc.

Tomorrow is Church, so I had better make out my check, plus fill up my med boxes before I forget. The mind still wants to sleep.

My problem with cooking is that I was taught to "eye" the amounts and didn't use a written recipe until Home Ec. in my teens. Then later I became the magpie lusting after everything bright, shiny, and sparkling. In my case, if it looked good or sounded as if it might, into the recipe it went!

My older sister cooks the same way except she eats the odd items such as bugs, snakes, and raw fish. Octopi anyone? My younger sister met an Italian when she traveled Europe and spent two years in Florence. She attended Italian cooking schools, cooked in class in Paris, France and ran away with a man from Sofia in Bulgaria who also taught her a thing or two around a kitchen. Now she has a few papers hanging on the wall and she follows a recipe religiously.

My father was the baker, my mother the sous chef. One time, inexplicitly, she made a chocolate sheet cake with frosting so hard no one could cut through it. My older sister took some to school, offering twenty-five cents to whoever could break it or cut it. She never had to give up her quarter and my mom never repeated whatever she had done. My first bread loaf was beautiful inside and out, gleamed and smelled delicious. That is until you reach the center of the loaf which was hollow. I  cried over that one. 

Both of my parents, farmers and woods folk, born and bred,  could make a meal out of what they gathered along their walks. I could too if you didn't mind eating hospital food for a while afterward.....

angelface555 I am with you if it looks good taste it ,If it teats good eat it; Nancy tell me now they say
if it taste good spit it out it is not good for you. but I am on a sea food diet see food and eat it. and my waste line shows it but as long as i feel good at my age what deference.

Lloyd

HAL, might it have been Kräuterbutter that you are speaking of on a steak? 

Lloyd, sounds good to me!

Jenny, I often add spices and herbs to butter. Just roll it around or smash them together!

I am up and about, its now 3.30am here in UK, got woken up, cant get back to sleep, sitting here with a cuppa and keeping you company till its your bedtime in the US...must be near your bedtimes now? soon this forum will become deserted........

Good Night Everyfriend....and Good Morning Jackie! 

May God bless us, Every ONE!

Jenny, I really don't know.  All I know is that they brought it to the table and it was the same size and shape as a pound of butter and full of all kinds of herbs and such.  It was delicious.

June, I follow the old original recipe printed on the corn meal box and it always turns out great.  (Quaker yellow corn meal)

Hal, I no longer actually "cook". I left all my baking stuff behind when I moved here. I have learned how to make a fried egg in the microwave, and it is good, otherwise my cooking consists of frozen dinners, canned food that can be heated in the microwave, etc. I am entitled to three meals a day in our dining room, but I usually go down for just the noon meal, then bring a bunch of other stuff home for supper.

I have had a very lazy day, and several good naps, so tomorrow I will be a bit more active.

Have a good night my dear ones. I love you all and wish you God's very best Blessings. June