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lazy gardener said:
You have made my day!

When my grand son was about 3 years old, we were driving by a pasture, and there was a herd of cows out grazing.  They were at the far end of this very large pasture.  I stopped the car, so he could see them.  He got all excited and started pointing and bouncing in his car seat, yelling:  "PUPPIES!!!"  From the distance, with his limited perspective regarding distance and size appearance, they looked quite small.  For years, people thought our family was one sandwich shy of a picnic when ever we noticed cows, and referred to them as puppies.
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I think I found your lost sandwich, but I won't return it until you return my macaroni salad.
 
Need advice. I have some jars of Gooseberry jam that is far to seedy and tart. I'm planning to dump it back into the pot and add some other fruit. I have some Pomagranite juice. How does that sound. How will I figure the new amount of sugar to add. Is there a sweet fruit I should add?

I also plan to run the Gooseberry jam through some cheese cloth to make jelly instead of jam. Any advice on that? I did make some gooseberry raspberry jam once, but rant the gooseberries though cheese cloth before adding the raspberries. My recipe calls for 1/2 pound of raspberries but I don't have that.


Also I have some Grape juice sitting for the overnight crystal thing, BUT the recipe calls for 5 cups of juice from 10 cups of grapes. I have eight cups of juice. Should I boil it down or save the three extra cups of juice. Is there another juice I can mix with the three cups to make 5, and if I do how do I determine the sugar amount.

The recipe for the grape jelly calls for one cup of sugar to each cup of juice. Will that ratio work if I add two more cups of another juice to the three extra grape juice?

Anyone got some thoughts?
 
The pomagranite and cheese cloth or maybe a little bigger screen, (you may strain to much good out) sounds good to me.

I don't know about the sugar ratios if you switch juices or that it would matter much. But If you have the right 5 stick to what you know is right. unless you have enough to experiment in case it doesn't work out. I like experimenting. Recipes are a base to do with what you like. Except in baking and some canning which is what your doing.
 
Three year old little boys are so delightful! One day my daughter in law who lives in San Francisco was driving with her young son and he was singing. She began to listen and he was singing Sweet Home Alabama. She had no idea he knew the words. She had played it several times in the car. Of course we were so pleased because we live in Ala and see our grandson and granddaughter only once a year. My son was a traveling nurse and when he was called about a job in SF he packed his car that very night and left Ala and hasn't looked back. They now have three children, one is only 1month old. We won't get to meet him until next Feb. We used to go out to SF but my husband has Parkinson's so we can no longer travel.I will be so happy when they come back to Sweet Home Alabama next year for just a little while. My other grandchildren, two girls live in Vermont. We haven't seen them in about 4 years now. It makes me very sad. When I was growing up I saw my grandmaw everyday. She only lived down the road and I loved to go sit in her porch swing with her and listen as she told me about her life. I loved her very much and it broke my heart when she died in 1958. I know my grandchildren will never feel that way about me because we can't really share our lives with each other. The little every day happenings.
 
spurrer said:
Three year old little boys are so delightful! One day my daughter in law who lives in San Francisco was driving with her young son and he was singing. She began to listen and he was singing Sweet Home Alabama. She had no idea he knew the words. She had played it several times in the car. Of course we were so pleased because we live in Ala and see our grandson and granddaughter only once a year. My son was a traveling nurse and when he was called about a job in SF he packed his car that very night and left Ala and hasn't looked back. They now have three children, one is only 1month old. We won't get to meet him until next Feb. We used to go out to SF but my husband has Parkinson's so we can no longer travel.I will be so happy when they come back to Sweet Home Alabama next year for just a little while. My other grandchildren, two girls live in Vermont. We haven't seen them in about 4 years now. It makes me very sad. When I was growing up I saw my grandmaw everyday. She only lived down the road and I loved to go sit in her porch swing with her and listen as she told me about her life. I loved her very much and it broke my heart when she died in 1958. I know my grandchildren will never feel that way about me because we can't really share our lives with each other. The little every day happenings.
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I understand your anguish. I get to see my oldest granddaughter (10 years old) once a year for a day or two. I too loved Grandmother. She was so much more than a grandmother, we were the greatest of friends and I grieved for months after she died.
 
spurrer said:
Three year old little boys are so delightful!  One day my daughter in law who lives in San  Francisco was driving with her young son and he was singing. She began to listen and he was singing Sweet Home Alabama. She had no idea he knew the words. She had played it several times in the car. Of course we were so pleased because we live in Ala and see our grandson and granddaughter only once a year. My son was a traveling nurse and when he was called about a job in SF he packed his car that very night and left Ala and hasn't looked back.  They now have three children, one is only 1month old. We won't get to meet him until next Feb. We used to go out to SF but my husband has Parkinson's so we can no longer travel.I will be so happy when they come back to Sweet Home Alabama next year for just a little while. My other grandchildren, two girls live in Vermont. We haven't seen them in about 4 years now. It makes me very sad. When I was growing up I saw my grandmaw everyday. She only lived down the road and I loved to go sit in her porch swing with her and listen as she told me about her life. I loved her very much and it broke my heart when she died in 1958. I know my grandchildren will never feel that way about me because we can't really share our lives with each other. The little every day happenings.
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my grandmother is answered always has been my best friend. There is something so amazing about a little girl sitting on a kitchen counter making biscuits in a big stoneware bowl. Grandma gives life a new meaning. It makes me very sad that too many people my age think "life has bigger plans than small town life". Family is so important, my children sadly have only seen my mom 3 times. That's her doing not mine though. Does your son keep current with sending you pictures at least? I would love to have my family all stay very close to home as they grow up and move out.
 
Chicken girl 15 said:
my grandmother is answered always has been my best friend. There is something so amazing about a little girl sitting on a kitchen counter making biscuits in a big stoneware bowl. Grandma gives life a new meaning. It makes me very sad that too many people my age think "life has bigger plans than small town life". Family is so important, my children sadly have only seen my mom 3 times. That's her doing not mine though. Does your son keep current with sending you pictures at least? I would love to have my family all stay very close to home as they grow up and move out.
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DW would sit my GD on the counter. Even now that she's six, my GD not DW, she'll say, Let's bake gramma.
 
Chicken girl 15 said:
I think I found your lost sandwich, but I won't return it until you return my macaroni salad.
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Let's throw in some Iced Tea, and take that picnic. Any other takers? What will you bring?

rancher hicks said:
DW would sit my GD on the counter. Even now that she's six, my GD not DW, she'll say, Let's bake gramma.
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Perhaps that sentence needs a comma!
 

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