yea ! cool huh ! we saw it on the shelf awhile back and bought their brand on purpose. :) DH's great grandfather used to make a living selling Watkins products door to door.
my mom gave me grandma's cookbook about 10 years ago. it is so nice to look through and cook from, to think about my grandma and mom and aunts as little girls helping to make the recipes. what a great window to back when.
back when food was made from scratch.
to quote Tim McGraw
" I miss back...
when i lived in kc,k years ago, a city person came by and said that someone was complaining about a roster, so i smiled and told him that i didn't know what he was talking about and right after my roo did his cock a doddle and then my neighbors roo did the same. and i smiled at him and said my...
yup, been doing that for years. we also noticed that smart and finale's meat prices were better than Costco's if you don't catch a sale at one of the 3 area super markets.
yes, i can relate, we bought heirloom and what i knew was good from past experience called "celebrity" tomatoes and both were good tasting, and canned up good. the heirlooms brought back memories of my childhood, the celebrity tasted like what ya get at mc'donalds, not bad but not great. i...
i guess i was lucky in the way that when my cars would break, my brother would fix it for me, but i had to get in and get my hands dirty and help. so i was conditioned to look at car problems as how can i fix it as opposed to where can i find a mechanic. also i have taken my car to get a price...
yea, that's me, stubborn :) my mom told me that they were gonna name me "Jennifer stubborn", but then they decided that "Jennifer Nicole" sounded better when they were trying to marry me off. :)
we are off grid and depend on solar power and use a wood stove, so when the lights go out in the valley i silently snicker at the folks that ain't quite figured it out yet. :)
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gosh, dose that bring back memories. i come from true hillbilly heritage. my moms parents had a hand crank well out back for water. grandma feed 9 folks cooking on a wood stove ( and boy, could she cook ) when we got home we would insist that mom cook it like grandma did. mom did the...
i cook on our wood stove every chance i get. i figure if it was good enough for my grandma then it's good enough for me. plus i like the idea that I'm giving the gas company the silent finger. some day when we get our house together I'm going to get a real wood stove range. :)
we love the idea of grinding our own hamburger. I'm keeping my eye out for some, did you say chuck steak you grind up ? we're also getting more into canning. i canned corn and chicken noodle soup and DH and i made up and canned some tomato paste for the first time this year. also we are...