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[pickitfarm]

Starts with GOOOOOOOD mashed potatos.

Cut up potatos
chopped onion
salt
1/3 water, bring to boil, simmer to really soft. don't let go dry.

Pour off extra water and save.
add butter
add milk
add pepper
and more salt to taste
MASH by hand-- not a mixer. Add saved water to loosen if necessary.

THe above we use at meals, then use the left overs.

Mash up cold mashed potatos;
add 1 egg for each cupish
add 1 tablespoon flour for each cupish

Mix well. YOu can play with the seasonings again at this point and add more onion ifyou like.

Hot skillet of butter and oil, or bacon fat, and fry up by spoonfulls. Use a medium heat and let those pancakes set up well before flipping, CHeck they don't get over browned though--burned is yuuuucky.

IF not completely cooked thru, put in oven to finish while other batches are frying up.

We don't eat much rice, so can't help you there. THe closest we get is wild rice in the chicken soup--well cooked. lol


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Thanks for sharing. I think it is because I whip and not mash...My AHA moment. I never had them cooked in bacon fat but I bet that is delicious. So DH is coming home at the end of the week. I think I am going to have to surprise him.

 

[pickitfarm]

Plain Rice

Rice:water 1:2
Pinch of Salt

Bring to boil, then low heat til water is absorbed.

There are few things better than the aroma freshly cooked rice.

Sounds simple enough....apparently I just don't have the knack....I either undercook....mmmmm crunchy or overcook...baby food. I am going to be making beans and rice tomorrow so I will try again. You can never say I give up. LOL

 

[ozexpat]

All this talk of mashed potatoes cooked in bacon fat - now there is a recipe good for my job security.

 

[ozexpat]

Sounds simple enough....apparently I just don't have the knack....I either undercook....mmmmm crunchy or overcook...baby food. I am going to be making beans and rice tomorrow so I will try again. You can never say I give up. LOL

the trick is not to boil off the water but to allow it to absorb in the rice. As soon as it boils drop the heat back.

Good luck.

 

[pickitfarm]

After years of struggling with rice, I was gifted a used rice cooker a few years ago, and I love it. Goodwill is a good place to check for a used one at a reasonable price so you can try one out without spending much money, but at this point I'm convinced it is the only way I will ever be able to cook rice properly.

Interesting that you mentioned a rice cooker. I have a rice steamer/cooker and use it for everything else but rice. Funny story, my DH was cooking dinner and was getting it ready before I came home. When I got there he says "we are just waiting on the rice to get done". Well the timer goes off. he opens the steamer to find he has uncooked rice. He was not thinking you have to put the water in with rice and not on the bottom of the steamer. He was furious and I was cracking up. You might think we are both dim witted. Maybe but we have survived thus far and not starving.


Thanks everyone on the lessons in cooking rice. I am sure I should be successful if not the next time but at one point I will get it right.

 

[pickitfarm]

Too young...she was hatched Nov. 3rd.

I don't know your coop setup but we have a hen that likes to crawl up under the coop and comes out when she is good and ready. It scared me the first few times she did because I could not find her.

 

[tnspursfan09]

I don't know your coop setup but we have a hen that likes to crawl up under the coop and comes out when she is good and ready. It scared me the first few times she did because I could not find her.

They live in the "baby" coop.

 

[scottcaddy]

I'm proud of you too, DiDi! Keep up the good work and fight through the days you want to have "just one." Been there, done that and I know how hard it is. I have been smoke free for 17 years, and though it is not tempting to bum one anymore, I still have moments when my body says. "If I was still smoking, I would have one right now." It happens at the strangest, most random times, too. Anything that has that much control over your mind and body is to be avoided like the plague!

The first three weeks are the hardest, then it gets gradually easier. After that, people let their guard down and starting back happens accidently. Just keep repeating - NO! I don't smoke anymore!


Random amusing observation - My filter at work makes it impossible to search for images of "Naked Necks" and it REALLY didn't want me to research whether or not "Pussy Willow" would grow in my zone.

Scott

 

[Cynthia12]

Alice was the epitomy of the perfect housekeeper in a perfect world.

We have the luxury of domestic help in the Philippines. Our kids have a nanny each and we have a cook/housekeeper. All three combined could not beat Alice.

The salaries are minimal compared to USA and we pay well above minumums.

Regardless, it makes life so much easier and allows us to concentrate on the important things with our kids.

Its going to be a real shock when we finally get to bring them to USA.

Have a friend who's hubby was in the Navy there. She told me about the help there. She loved it.

 

[Malaurie]

I am in Mid-south Mississippi, about an hour south of Jackson.