Hurricane Advice

[Ursuline Chick]

Accuweather is showing it turning and heading up towards me through the Midwest...

Praying it fizzles out.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

We are actually from Perry..which is just south of Abbeville.
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Close enough, most Americans don't know the difference between cajun and creole, when it comes to food anyway.

 

[Crooked Chicken]

FarmerConnie -- glad to hear that you survived the storm. Hope your gas holds out enough to cut the biggest parts of the trees blocking you in. Is there any way you can wrap a chain around the tree and drag it out of your path with a vehicle?

So.... basically rice and gravy is very thick rich gravy on rice? Sounds good. I make pretty darn good gravy -- especially turkey gravy. I put the neck, liver, gizzards in a small pan and boil them till tender -- save the broth for the gravy. After removing the turkey from the roasting pan and draining a lot of the fat off, I put the roast pan back on the burners on low heat while I scrape every morsel off the pan. Then add a little roux of flour & water. I let it cook a good long time and gradually add broth, beer, or water. Simmer it long and slow and keep repeating. I usually end up with a full pan of rich dark gravy. I strip all of the neck meat off and finely chop the livers and gizzards -- add all to the gravy. So good!

For the life of me though, I still have not mastered plain ol' sausage/country gravy :/

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I have reflux and indigestion, only thing I've found that works is kefir. I highly recommend it. The over the counter and prescription meds just make it worse in the long run.

Kefir is a great food for a ton of reasons, and you can just take it with you like a beverage!

 

[Ursuline Chick]

FarmerConnie -- glad to hear that you survived the storm. Hope your gas holds out enough to cut the biggest parts of the trees blocking you in. Is there any way you can wrap a chain around the tree and drag it out of your path with a vehicle?

So.... basically rice and gravy is very thick rich gravy on rice? Sounds good. I make pretty darn good gravy -- especially turkey gravy. I put the neck, liver, gizzards in a small pan and boil them till tender -- save the broth for the gravy. After removing the turkey from the roasting pan and draining a lot of the fat off, I put the roast pan back on the burners on low heat while I scrape every morsel off the pan. Then add a little roux of flour & water. I let it cook a good long time and gradually add broth, beer, or water. Simmer it long and slow and keep repeating. I usually end up with a full pan of rich dark gravy. I strip all of the neck meat off and finely chop the livers and gizzards -- add all to the gravy. So good!

For the life of me though, I still have not mastered plain ol' sausage/country gravy :/

That's how I learned to make gravy, takes a while but well worth the effort. It is also how I have taught my daughter, cause you just can't beat a great gravy. (I could eat that on stale bread. LOL) We don't really do the white sausage gravy here.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

YUP! Pretty much every Saturday night we'd get together and cook something different. Craziest thing we did was to orchestrate feeding 1000 people a real home cooked Thanksgiving Dinner and it worked

That must have been a lot of fun, although hard work. What a great kindness. So many must have been made so happy that Thanksgiving! Give yourself a BIG pat on the back.

 

[aart]

especially turkey gravy

MmmmHmmmm!!
That I can do.
Last year I bartered for 2 fresh turkeys. I sure didn't want to roast or freeze them whole for just me, so I butchered them out into parts and froze them in small sized packages. Was really nice to have roasted or grilled turkey dinners all year long. Grilling was nice to try but hard to get gravy drippings so I'd rather oven roast instead. Just brothed up the last of the carcasses, there's still a breast and a leg/thigh pkg in there, and have 2 more fresh ones on order.

 

[Peeps61]

Still praying she is busy and offline and will let us know how she is doing when she can.

many of my inmate students are from Puerto Rico. The few that have been able to get family members on the phone say that much of the island is still without power and having cellular phone/tower issues, so I would imagine she may not have power or internet access just yet.

 

[Kiki]

many of my inmate students are from Puerto Rico. The few that have been able to get family members on the phone say that much of the island is still without power and having cellular phone/tower issues, so I would imagine she may not have power or internet access just yet.

What is an "inmate student?"
Are you a teacher at a prison?

 

[Ursuline Chick]

many of my inmate students are from Puerto Rico. The few that have been able to get family members on the phone say that much of the island is still without power and having cellular phone/tower issues, so I would imagine she may not have power or internet access just yet.

Have they tried texting cell phone to cell phone?