Hey Grandpa, What's For Supper?

[happyhen]

Reading all these good meals made me nostalgic for my Grandma's farm cookin', so I did my best to recreate one of my favorites from the past (fortunately I made her ketchup recipe last month).

Fried pork chops, baby limas cooked in ketchup with a little onion and bacon, green beans that I froze earlier this summer (a pinch of nutmeg added to the cooking water just like Grandma did), and fresh baked white bread.

 

[Yogiman]

Banter wrote:
Hi Yogiman!
Tonight I'm making YOUR recipe for cat head biscuits and also some red pepper mustard greens (from my garden), not bad from a Mainer-huh?

Not bad! Not bad at all! You go girl, do it. But when you get those biscuits down pat then we've got to work on some cornbread. You just got to have cornbread with mustard greens. BamaChicken and I both agree that the 11th. commandment is, "Thou shall not eat mustard greens without cornbread."
Yes, watch out for Hanna. Stay safe and dry. Enjoy the biscuits too. Be sure to let me know how they came out.​

 

[swampducks]

Aneesa's Muse :

swampducks... did you make the turtle gumbo just like regular ol' gumbo with filet and roux and all that? did you add any other meat and what veggies did you add? It sounds pretty interesting, actually.

Pretty close. Can't get any file around here but I did use a flour/butter roux lightly browned. Neither did the recipe call for chopped carrots, but it was filled with chopped onion garlic and celery,, and had crushed tomatoes in it. It didn't call for okra but I threw some in and it called for chopped hard boiled egg which tasted pretty darn good. Also a tsp of sherry in each serving bowl.

No other meat than the turtle though.​

 

[swampducks]

Quote:
No, real snapper. DH kept it in a clean barrel for 2 weeks with fresh water to clean out its system.

Didn't taste like a swamp at all. Wasn't all that flavorful I thought, possibly overwhelmed by the gumbo. The remaining pound of meat I'm going to try frying, see if that's better.

 

[Aneesa's Muse]

Quote:
Thanks!

Next time I'm home, I'm sure going to find me a Snapper! I'm very curious..

 

[Backyard Buddies]

Tonight is clean out the fridge night, which includes bits and pieces of the meals we've enjoyed this week. I love the feeling, not only of having a night off from cooking, but of looking in my sparkling clean fridge and dreaming of just how I'll be filling it up again this week.

 

[thechickenchick]

My BIL left for Iraq on tuesday. So my MIL had his wife (SIL) and her 4 kids and my husband and our son over for turkey dinner. It was really yummy!! We ate at 1 so I will probabally just cook a quick qeusadilla(Im sure thats wrong!) later. Kind of a common bed time snack around our house.

 

[happyhen]

It's football season in my house, so weekend meals are "stadium" style foods and lots of snacks. Tonight was brats and kraut, hard pretzels with mustard, vegetables and dip and chocolate chip cookies.

All those who may be in Ike's path, please stay safe. Thoughts and prayers are with you all.

 

[ninjapoodles]

Tonight I grilled the ribs I started the other night, along with some "heart-healthy" purple-hull peas, and really good cornbread.

 

[happyhen]

Tonight was pizza delivery.

The weather has been so variable here, DH and I spent the day outside getting a jump start on winter preparations. He was in the front yard, mowing, pruning, weeding, etc., while I was in the back starting to put the vegetable garden to bed, spreading compost and fresh coop litter, liming, and turning it all under. The only things left growing are the tomatoes, cukes, leaf lettuce and zucchini.

I sense an early winter here, sure hope I'm wrong.