Granny's gone and done it again

[Rambling Iris]

In case you are interested......
Zipper Cream Peas are a popular variety of Southern pea, also known as a cowpea or field pea, prized for their creamy white beans, nutty flavor, and ease of shelling. The name "Zipper" comes from the string-like seam along the pod that acts like a zipper, making it simple to open and extract the peas by hand.

• Flavor & Texture: Creamy, meaty, and nutty, with a delicate earthy taste. When cooked, they create a rich, creamy "pot liquor" (the cooking liquid), which is a hallmark of Southern-style preparation.
• Appearance: Pods are 6–9 inches long, medium green when young, turning straw-colored when dry. The peas inside are large, white, and tender.
• Growing: A heat-tolerant, bushy or semi-vining plant that grows 24–32 inches tall. It thrives in warm climates, is drought-tolerant once established, and is resistant to root knot nematodes. It matures in 65–68 days and is ideal for fresh eating, canning, or freezing.
• Culinary Use: Commonly used in Southern cooking, especially in dishes like Old School Zipper Cream Peas with Ham Hocks, succotash, or soups. They can be substituted for other Southern peas like black-eyed peas or purple hull peas.
• Origin: Developed in 1972 by the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, combining traits from 'Korean Crowder', 'Mississippi 32', and 'Running Acre' varieties.

They are open-pollinated, non-GMO, and available from seed suppliers like Gurney’s, HOSS, Victory Seed Company, and David’s Garden Seeds.

 

[microchick]

Get some Azo.

That's what I was going to say. That stuff is worth its weight in gold. I keep a box on hand just in case.

Old bat? Nah, I'm more of a Wonder Woman but no way I could wear that skimpy little number she wears any more. Oh I could get into it. It would be a matter of dealing with what gravity has done to my figure. I bet she will have the same problem when she is in her 70s.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Yellow squash sauteed with onion and bacon, broccoli with cheese sauce and zipper cream peas. Blueberry pound cake for desert. and a cup of hot tea.

That sounds so good. especially the squash cooked just the way I love it!! I used to have those peas in Ga. but I think they went by a different name.

By the time I got in from tending the chickens everything I'd planned besides the rice pudding went out the window. Wound up with hot dogs and chips with the rice pudding. Odd combination but turned out better than expected.
Hot dogs and chips are good. I would need to pass on the rice. That's always been a starch for me, not desert.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

In case you wonder, Dogs killed it. I brought it in because I wanted to cook it but Tom said it was a bad time of year because of worms or something like that, Personally I think by the look on his face he was just grossed out.

EDIT: Whrn I c&p this info Google generously added WAAAY more info than I wanted, including several "image" placeholders at the bottom that I can't edit out, delete or get rid of. PLEASE IGNORE THEM! ***Technical Difficulties!!*** So very sorry!


generally recommended to avoid eating wild rabbit during the warmer months, specifically
April through August, or before the first hard frost.

This "rule of thumb" exists because summer rabbits are more prone to carrying parasites (fleas, ticks, warbles) and diseases like tularemia (rabbit fever).

(Google AI) but my first DH told me this also and he and his relatives hunted rabbits for years in KS.

get the rice pudding made. It was delicious

Recipe?

 

[microchick]

We used to have rice with milk and sugar as a desert as kids. Rice pudding rarely.

Okay, think I'm going to cry. Just read about them finding arsenic in manufactured candy. There was a link to go to to see the full list.

https://exposingfoodtoxins.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Candy-Arsenic.v5.pdf

I probably ate enough Twizzlers when DH was in the hospital and I was driving 300 miles round trip to last me a lifetime. I would chew on it to keep awake while on the road. There are so many of my all time favorites on the list and how much you are supposed to limit yourself to is just a shocker.

Big question is why are they using arsenic in manufacturing candy?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I'm sorry I don't know what's up with all those images and I can't seem to delete them!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Med. time and a snack wouldn't hurt anything. Too bad its not squash! ... BBL

 

[BigBlueHen53]

@twisted-acres-farm Congrats on a healthy litter! I did call it, didn't I! Does this mean I get a puppy?

 

[h2oratt]

Yikes y'all! I got to sleep around 2am. Fawn woke me up at 4:30. Crying at my door. Not like her at all. Then came the puking. So much puking. It reminded me of the scene from the movie Stand by me. It was a blueberry pie eating contest. If you haven't seen it count yourself lucky. One and half hrs later and my back screaming bloody murder. I headed back to bed. Frosty decided it was getting up time and darted out of my room refusing call back. I decided to leave her out there and started back to bed. Just started to lay down when Bandit decided to start crying. Being the only one in a crate so I tossed him out as well. Went back to sleep til 8am. when they ALL decided they couldn't live w/o me and now I have bladder cramps. Wonderful.LOL Its just a lil skin.

I hate those kind of days

 

[h2oratt]

That sounds cheap compared to here. The vet visit that is.

Yep our vet visit is 60