The Front Porch Swing

[Triple Willow]

Oh I found one but its not big enough.  Besides this is NOT my house....  its grandmas.  She was never a cooker.  Grandpa did breakfast.  They did sandwiches for lunch and half the time they went out to eat for dinner or Grandpa Barbequed.

I neeed to get a set for up at the house for sure...  but it will not get used till I move up there.  So I will wait till I move home...

I have a list of stuff too.... to buy before I move up.  Cast iron skillet set.... AND a griddle.  Home Canning equipment.... pressure canner, and waterbath....  (you can use those Waterbath caning pots for making tamales too.)  Though I am thinking of trying my hand at Canning tamales.  in those jars that have the smooth sides. 

I need a whole new set of regular pots and pans for up there as well as knives and silverware.  My Ex Roommate used mine all up.  Oh and a new microwave.... she had the nerve to think I took some of her silverware...  sheesh.

I bought my coffee maker at a thrift shop and I love it.... couldnt afford to buy the same type in the store.   But living as far away from civilization as I do when i am at home Having things break down becomes an issue.  So when i buy appliances I buy new.   I also am very done with used furniture.

deb

Oh yeah, I know all about the living in somebody else's place. Around here you can find wonderful caste iron at yard sales, estate sales, thrift stores, antique stores, etc. The old thoroughly used stuff is much better than new. I love caste iron! I have the same four cup coffee maker that I think my mom got for me 30 years ago when I started college. LOL We still use it every day. It has only been repaired one time. Sometimes I really wish it would stop working so I can get a new one. I'm so cheap I have to use it until it quits. LOL

 

[tntchix]

Oh, I almost forgot I brought some really awesome potato salad to the porch today. Don't forget to try some! It haz bacons in it.

 

[Triple Willow]

Funk Shway ... love that!!   need some of it in my life.

DH took all the cast iron to Wisconsin.  I won't use it on the glass-top stove that we moved back into the house for fear of breaking it.  Man, I hate this electric stove.  I want my gas range back!!

Happy Birthday, Deb!

I need a truckload of "funk shway"! LOL We have an electric stove but I'd like to try gas. I'm afraid I would destroy one of those new fangled smooth top stoves. Pretty sure I would. They are pretty though.

 

[Alice28]

That's how I got my dutch oven, Christmas gift from my mom. She knew I would never buy my own. Come to think of it, that's how I got my skillets too.

My birthday is three days after Christmas, so might just ask my husband to get me one this year. It would have to be a joint gift, just to much money to be just one gift. Last year we bought a new couch (first new ferniture we ever bought!) for Christmas. We had the money in savings, as I refuse to use a credit card for anything other then emergencys, but I still ha a really hard time with buying something for that much. But it's comfortable and used often and the last two couches were used and didn't want to do that thins time because I wanted leather so it would be easy to clean.

 

[Triple Willow]

@wyoDreamer... I remember a hundred years ago seeing my grandmother dry apples on chicken wire covered with a light linen or net like material. I have also heard of them dried up on a tin roof. Folks use to do a whole lot of that sort of thing. Kind of like the community hog killings. I sure would like to go back to those days. ... a goat killed for a family cookout, a couple chickens killed for Sunday dinner, rabbit or squirrel fried for breakfast along with buscuits and gravy. My mom (86 yo) said back in her day nobody had a turkey for Thanksgiving. Everybody had a hen instead.

 

[MistyMountain]

This is from Mother Earth News - the article is on their web-site. I posted this in a different forum, but thought you guys might be interested also.
I am going to make a Solar Food Dehydrator after I move to Wisconsin. I had seen one like this in the past and had drawn up plans, but this one is a little bit better. I like that the food is in a dark box, not sitting out baking under the sunlight losing nutrients.

I will change the door though, it looks like it would be in the way trying to get to the trays.

This reminds me of the 18th hole at a mini golf course (FDL Wisconsin). You hit the ball up the ramp and try to get it to fall in the middle hole for a free game!

 

[rrrmamma]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEB. Hope you have a wonderful day. Wish I was there to fix a Greek Dinner for you. Dolmades, Some Mousaka, some Souvlakia and Baklava for dessert. Now I am hungry!!!! Enjoy the rest of your day.

 

[Triple Willow]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEB. Hope you have a wonderful day. Wish I was there to fix a Greek Dinner for you. Dolmades, Some Mousaka, some Souvlakia and Baklava for dessert. Now I am hungry!!!! Enjoy the rest of your day.

rrrmama, are you Greek? Since y'all have been talking about wild grape leaves and dolmades I noticed a wild grape vine growing here on our place. There are soo many things out there that are edible.

 

[Beekissed]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEB!

X10!!!!

Happy, happy birthday, Deb!

True.

By the way, you may have missed my question about DL in a raised coop, I posted a picture of it and was wondering if there are any disadvantages of having it moist, the floor is Vinyl so I was going to stop using the DE and moist it a little and also add a little soil on top of incorporating your advice on using different carbons.

Your wood is protected, so it should be just fine. I've had it in a wood coop without any floor protection and it was fine also as it doesn't stay so wet as to penetrate or damage wood. The soil is a good idea, the more cultured, the better.

And all the people said AMEN!

Awesome post! What faith you have! I'm not sure I would be able to carry on as you are.
And all

Amen!

Oh, I almost forgot I brought some really awesome potato salad to the porch today. Don't forget to try some! It haz bacons in it.

How sweet!!! I don't like potato salad but maybe that's because I never had any with bacon in it...that wouldn't be so bad.

I brought raspberry lemonade to go with your tater salad and also some little hand sized chicken pot pies.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEB. Hope you have a wonderful day. Wish I was there to fix a Greek Dinner for you. Dolmades, Some Mousaka, some Souvlakia and Baklava for dessert. Now I am hungry!!!! Enjoy the rest of your day.

How's Madi doing today without her mama around? Better?

I'm hoping she will grow to love the peace at your place and explore why it is that your place has such peace.

 

[rrrmamma]

No I am not Greek, but I love to cook and have studied many cultures. My husband was in Greece in the military so I have learned to cook the food he remembered . I also do Japanese, Thai, Chinese, I lived in the Native American Pueblos in New Mexico so I can also do some NA cooking. Green Chile stew, more like a soup, Fry bread of course. There food is a cross between traditional Pueblo cooking and Mexican. Our breakfast in the fall when the chiles were ripe was a hot, homade flour tortilla with grilled Hatch Chiles and a pinch of salt. Our breakfast in the winter when we were selling jewelry at the flea market in Gallup was mutton stew. Food history and ethnic foods has always something I have studied. I have cooked professionally and had a catering business in North Hollywood, CA. I learned many cultures there through my son's ROTC friends who came from all over. I had them bring recipes. I would cook there food for a week and they would educate all the rest of us about there culture over the dinner table. We all learned a lot. They were going to eat at my place anyway so I turned it into a learning experience.