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Pagal

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG! Webkitty, I love Carraba's too! Used to go there all the time when I lived in Florida. Just recently found out that there is one about an hour away from me here in PA.

Webkitty

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yea, what Costacat said! I love to eat!

Drpepper

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Avery, I would love a cookbook from you. I would be willing to bet I cook alot like you did. I am not a fancy cook, we are buttermilk biscuits and milk gravy for breakfast kind of folk. Any advice from you would be welcome.

Webkitty

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
REally Pagal? I thought Carrabas was only down here! It is the best! Even their salads are special. AND, they have a good atmosphere, something that I look for.

Back on topic, I agree that this year's bunch don't have that same special dinner time that Nichole provided for them. Too bad.

Costacat

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
For those not in the know, there are cookbook collector's clubs. And vintage cookbooks are all the rage right now. I've got some great cookbooks in my collection... old southern recipes, old farm recipes, even recipe books from the Olde Country (really really old Russian, Turkey, and other eastern Euro countries).

It's a royal kick to read thru these old books. Even though I'd probably never ever follow one of these recipes to the "t" (like, where do buy bee's nostrils these days? <grin>) and partly cause they are just not healthy. But it's fun to start off with an idea from a vintage book.

And Aus? I have a better idea. Howzabout a jar of homemade Santa Rosa Plum jam for a basket of your "silky" corn?

Yllek

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You guys are great! I sooooo do love to eat and the bad thing about that is the fact that I don't cook a whole lot and having just pretty much gotten out on my own, it always ends up that I get everything prepackaged and fast food and that's not a good combination. Oh well, it is on my to do list to take a cooking class, I swear!!

Uglyboy

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe BB should give the hamsters a VCR and a complete tape set of “Bitchin’ in the Kitchen with Nicole”

Pagal

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Julia Child was on Emeril's show with him last night and was quite a hoot! They should send her in with the hamsters!! I'm sure she would set them straight on their kitchen manners while showing them how to whip up some tasty meals with the ingredients they have on-hand.

Aus10

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Costa no problem.....I'll throw in a couple of watermellon for good measure as well....Just let me know if you want it corked first? :)

Webkitty

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Costacat, I have some old cookbooks too, but don't use them. I like the Frugal Gormet, the only contempory cookbook I actually use. It has some great authentic chinese recipies in it.

What are bee's nostrils? They can't possibly mean actual bee's nostrils? Could they?

Costacat

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Aus, you betcha... what's a watermelon if it ain't corked! <snicker>

Avery

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Drpepper, Buttermilk biscuits and milk gravy are a big request to this day when kids come over. That and chocholate pancakes with chocholate syrup. I really don't cook like that anymore, but back in the day, I made lots of different food. For example, it didn't matter that all the boys loved fried chicken, it was always too much to make fried chicken for 16 of us, so a typical dinner would have been fried chicken, pot roast, cat fish, pork chops, potatoes (baked and fried) black eyed peas, green beans,greens, okra, corn, hush, puppies, corn bread, biscuits, gravy, kool aid, tea and milk. Now there was not enough of any one thing to serve 16 but together would feed all of us. And enough dishes to keep all the boys from fighting for at least an hour.

Costacat

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yllek, get thee to thy nearest Barnes and Noble and immerse thyself in the cookbook section! <grin>

Webkitty, I was being a sarcastic smartie pants. I couldn't remember what one of the really weird ingredients could be.

I mean... do bee's even have nostrils?

Costacat

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Avery, OMG!!! How long did you spend in the kitchen? Like, what? ALL DAY???

That sounds like one heckuva southern spread. Something like what I had when I was visiting a tobacco farm in North Carolina years ago. Believe me, growing up in California, I was totally amazed at all the food that was on the table. I mean, three different kinds of meat, four different vegetable, three different breads...

Hey! That sounds just like YOUR dinner table!

Pagal

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ya got me Costacat! I've been searching for "bee's nostrils!" LOL

Aus10

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
And what's a southern dinner without good ole southern desserts ladies? Pecan pie, transparent pie and blackberry cobbler.......

Pagal

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
transparent pie?

Avery

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
kentucky derby pie, sugar pie, rhubarb pie...

Webkitty

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Costacat, don't mind me, I just had a little bitty brain fart!! LOL!

My mother used to make watermellon pickles. She would take the rind and cure it in a mixture of clove and some other spices. Everyone loved them but, I don't like clove, and didn't want to hurt her feelings, so I would nibble, and she would always send a jar home with me!

Gee Avery, the food bill! ACK!!!!

Wiseolowl

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I suppose my thought is that that we have 8 people with different talents that could be constructively used to enrich and entertain the others if they used their imaginations..With the younger ones I just fear that the "mall" mentality has just dulled this possibility---my God.. am speaking as an early baby boomer who inherited just a little of my parents' generation's ability to entertain themselves positively wihout tv , the net etc and etc.

Yllek

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmmmm. Barnes and Noble is my church. I usually have to steer clear of there or my rent would not get paid and I would be homeless with no place to put my books! I have gone there with that intention on numerous occasions and I always get sidetracked. I can't help it!

Bmh

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
UMMM..Avery...that is like scary...It would take me a year to make that...

I am no cook..I order out almost every day a week..my girlfriend might make dinner once in a while..but I really dont cook...

Webkitty

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG, pecan pie......(salivating) I have to leave this thread, I'm supposed to be on a diet, geesh!

Avery

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Food bill? LOL I had to feed 16 of us, we would have starved if I had to pay for that, most of our food came from the back yard. We bought very little from the store.

Drpepper

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Avery,I love it. Those are indeed the things I fix, but not to the same degree at one time. I was married at 16 and started having babies right away and had 4, that is hard enough for me. My oldest is 21 and comes home for the cookin. What would we do with out that iron skillet to fix those biscuits. I better get back on the subject at hand before they kick me out. Your a sweetheart!