Hurricane Advice

[Kiki]

Maybe this year I should really confuse my kids and make peirogi, glumpki and maybe some schnitzel. LOL

Will google the other two unknown to me things now.

 

[Kiki]

I love good old American food... but I love Eastern European food... And I know if my grandfather was still alive, he'd be upset that my daughters don't like kraut. LOL

 

[Kiki]

How I feel about snow....and apparently I'm the minority....

 

[Kiki]

How I feel about snow....and apparently I'm the minority....

You should make a new poll for your...what did you call them a while back...old folks?

 

[Kiki]

What else do I need to catch up on....
Pressure cooker? Rice Cooker (hubby chef uses a Yomorushi??) Canning?
I defer to the hubby...

Your project is to research cooking...in general.

 

[Kiki]

I'm the type that once a season is over, I'm ready for it to be over. I love my 4 seasons. So ready for fall and winter!! Just no snow during the week. I have to get to work. LOL

We have 2 seasons down here.
Hot and slightly cool.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Can we blame @KikisGirls for keeping this thread going? Yes, I do believe she is the instigator. Although, I MIGHT have contributed a weansy bit. It did help save what little bit of a mind I have left during the hurricane. Especially when the crazy lady tells me to go away, in a very loving way, of course.

So random question, when I tell crazy lady that I brought home a dead bird for supper, why does that annoy her? I said "I got chicken" and she wanted to know why we needed more. <yeah, right?!?!> Where is that fine line between communication and "I have no idea what you are talking about?"

i see no issue with the at all

folks you'll find this funny... Grand daughter (18 months old) threw a full blown tantrum when she was informed she had to leave the pasture and the birds. My DIL didn't find humor in my reaction.

did you tell he she could bring a couple with her?

I have thrown my fair share of tantrums today too.

My dictator just informed me that I didn't cut his apple right.
I handed him the knife and walked away before I threw another tantrum.

at least you didn't throw the knife

Planning a Caribbean Vacation! Oh, Cruise ships! Crazy Lady has that on the bucket list after colleges are paid for.

I know someone in the travel industry, actually a few someone's

Ya want to meet at the bar and I could pick them up? Our HEB will be open in Spring of 2018! What is exciting about a new store opening that you would need an exclamation point? I'm missing something. It is a store and will put Thrif Tee's out of business.

No, you probably should feed them to the chickens. Just bought another loaf of gluten free. I need to start making gluten free bread for crazy lady. I'm such a sweetheart that way.

Why would you use something like that for pizza? Homemade is SOO much nicer. Fresh basil and garlic under the sauce. Light sprinkle of cheese. Fungus, pepperoni and olives. Mmmm! Didn't care for the chicken on top.

i was going to say that Banty is GF and could toss out ideas but now I can't remember what else I was going to say

I was at Wal-mart walking down the isle behind a couple of younger women when a cat-call whistle rings out REAL close. One does a slow turn around and her face lights up when she sees me! (Man with job!!) Our eyes lock. She is smiling ear to ear.

Before she can say anything, I ask innocently, "did you whistle at me?" The question marks jump out of her eyes! A long awkward silence ensues.

Then her friend says, "that was my phone."

I reply, "your friend's phone whistled at us."

They both walk down the next isle laughing. While I continue my Walmart shopping experience. Chuckling to myself. Yep, I still got it. I can pick up women in Walmart. Not proud of it.

We even have rent a cops.
I might laugh at them when they are driving their golf cars around parking lots.

we have rent a cops in the summer but our population quadruples

Not all, just the "inner city" and poor areas that have a high theft rate. They are there to protect the merchandise from the vulnerables.



Private security. Usually without a gun. Or if they have a gun, you are watching them look for a reason to pull it out. Not reassuring.

huh that's not what they are around here, ours are pt summer guys from out of town and are only here for a couple months

There are 8 Walmarts within 8 miles of my house.

ewww, mine is at least 45 minutes away, closer to an hour

Ok... Well here goes. First its important to know that I'm a bit nerdy and love food science and science in general.

I'm also big into efficiency and process improvement.... And I use a LOT of stock.

So here was my problem: I have two large stock pots (12 & 16 qt) which will yield about 14 quarts or one canner load of stock and the process takes 12-16 hours. I wanted more stock without drastically increasing time. (btw, start to finish is about 2 hours for a canner load)

So here we are... My friends and I are sitting on the patio at a hotel in Atlantic City, its a beautiful night, so the patio if full of guests. Of course we're all sipping our favorite beverage and chatting. At my table, I have a biologist, a physicist and a handful of engineers. So I present my challenge to the group. The biologist starts out with how quickly we need to get the water to a boil and what temps we need to simmer the stock, so we don't get any bad bugs. The engineers break out their computers and start looking for pots and calculating what the target quantity should be. Once we determined that we wanted to target 3-4 canner loads (two canners so 28 quarts per load). The physicist, breaks out his calculator to figure out time over temp to get the mass water and solids from 40 degrees (fridge temp) to boiling, so we could calculate what burner we needed. After a few minutes, we negotiate back to 3 loads so a 160qt pot and 150,000 btu rocket burner. Propane powered to go along with my other toys on the deck.I jump on amazan and order the stuff and as I'm placing the order realize that everyone on the patio had stopped chatting and are all staring at us. They thought (as you probably do) that we were a bunch of total loons.

So here's the stock pot I use... Last time I made stock, I got 92 quarts.

that looks like a lobster pot with a spout, actually I think my lobster pot is bigger
Lol

It took me years to learn to make good schnitzel with stateside ingredients... I finally cracked the code... I bought fresh ham from the Amish and asked it be cut into Schnitzel fliech. That worked, tasted just like it did in Germany.

So sad about the kraut. I'm in the minority around here but I love fresh kielbasa cooked up with home made Kraut and Irish potatoes.

I also make a killer Papakash and spatzle recipe.

mmmm kraut, have no idea what those last two things are though

You're a Bruins fan? Eeewww. I guess you get a point for at least liking hockey in general.

ain't nothin wrong with the bruins banty

 

[Kiki]

Yes, you are. Can't play hockey when it's 80* out.

(Keeks, I promise I won't start spouting off about hockey again. I know you're sick of it.)

I know who the Habs are now and that's all that really matters...right?

 

[Kiki]

i see no issue with the at all

did you tell he she could bring a couple with her?

at least you didn't throw the knife
I know someone in the travel industry, actually a few someone's
i was going to say that Banty is GF and could toss out ideas but now I can't remember what else I was going to say

we have rent a cops in the summer but our population quadruples
huh that's not what they are around here, ours are pt summer guys from out of town and are only here for a couple months
ewww, mine is at least 45 minutes away, closer to an hour
that looks like a lobster pot with a spout, actually I think my lobster pot is bigger
Lol
mmmm kraut, have no idea what those last two things are though
ain't nothin wrong with the bruins banty

Weekly sales ad came out today.
Lobsters are on sale for only 10 bucks this week!!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I Am mostly Latvian (my grandfather came off a ship during the war) and the food he used to make BUT on the same hand he grew up in a very large family and didn't have much, they even made head cheese but he did teach my mom some stuff and mushrooming