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[Beer can]

My niece put salt in my coffee once!
I was wanting to drink a cup with my mom. The first sip I started spitting and choking while foaming. I finally got up to get her and she hid behind my mom! My mom asked what did she do while I was trying to get ahold of her! When I told my mom she begged me not to kill her!!!

Diva I have done most of those same things. Lol
And I am also guilty of putting stuff away a d never see it again!
Once it was $250. I put in a camera. To hide it. The camera disappeared!

When I was 14? Hid three $50 bills rolled up in the end of my 12ga shotgun. Worked in the bluestone quarry every summer vacation, winter/spring break etc. If I didn't spend it eventually mom and dad would run short and 'borrow' $ (never pay it back) to buy stupid stuff like food.
Forgot all about it until I saw little pieces and chunks in the melting snow around the bird feeder that I had shot a squirrel that winter
Gathered as many of the pieces I could find, dried them out, no way could they be reconstructed/taped....
Friends mom took me and the envelop of money confetti to the bank (no way could I have let my parents find out lol) I explained what happened hoping they would replace the $, they couldn't but sent it out and I was mailed back a check for $150 from the Federal reserve

 

[Beer can]

I wonder if there might be a type of beans they would like better.

I like black beans a lot and navy beans come out creamy. Black eyed pees are kind of between beans and pees.

Ok, I guess I have had too much beans!

Red beans for chili and of course great northern white beans for ham beans....I pressure cook some type of beans several times a month

I eat a lot of beans. Grew black, northern white, kidney, and pintos this yr. The black made the most. They are all bush beans though. Going with pole beans next yr to grow on the corn. Going to try Haudenosaunee skunk also called Chester or Flagg, and Seneca birds egg. 100s of varieties out there. People actually collect them like they are rare artwork.
I like a handful tossed in salads, salads with lots of vegis, the beans and either shredded chicken, steak strips or ham, and sharp cheese. I cook them in a slow cooker crock pot and then store in the fridge for the week using what I need, when they get about a week old the chickens get the rest.
Made some delicious maple syrup baked beans with northern white.
I'm on the fence with the hominy, was alright in the soup. I wonder if it'll soak up flavors in ham soup like beans do. I bought a can for the soup, but I did see Goya had bags of dried, if I try it I'll use the dry, might have a better chance of soaking up flavor. If it isn't good I'll have to tell DD it's all hers being she suggested the idea. One benefit would be no gas

 

[Beer can]

I never soak my beans overnight, but I add an ingredient that most people don't know to add. Fix a pot of beans like you normally would, adding salt to the water. When the beans get to boiling, add a heaping 1/8 th. of a tsp. of baking soda to the water. Make sure the water has boiled down a little, because it's going to foam up. You won't taste it in the beans after they've cooked, it neutralizes some of the acid making the beans easier to cook tender more quickly, it helps keep them intact, so they don't turn to mush, and it reduces flatulence after they are eaten.

I soak. I know I've heard that about baking soda before, but when I looked it up didn't see it anywhere. I did read if you boil for ten min, drain and rinse, then cook it's supposed to reduce flatulence.
I like the slow cooker, keeps them intact and not mushy cause it's easy to test one once in awhile and they aren't getting all stirred up riled around.

 

[Beer can]

I hate beans, except string beans. Husband likes them.

I'm trying greasy cut short beans next yr, best of both words and supposed to be tastier than regular green beans. They have a shiny smooth outside is why they call them greasy.
They grow them till seeds are in and then string and snap, cook low and slow, both green bean and bean bean.
Guess they're a southern thing, I've never had them but I'll give them a try, sounds good to me.

 

[Beer can]

The beets were fresh and from farm fresh to you. I do not like canned beets but do like fresh beets

Dinner was very tasty.

We tried them roasted last yr, pretty darn good. Have a row fattening up right now. I love steamed beet greens from thining with the tiny beets.

 

[Beer can]

Homony..... open can and rinse.... Salt and pepper and a spoon full of bacon grease.... throw in frying pan to heat. Oh and you can throw in some fresh tomato and onion slices if you have them.

Its just reconstituted corn... but some have difficulty with the texture... I love it.

we Serve it up as a side dish for ham or steak... Or if there is nothing else its a great filling meal.

Same goes for Grits which is made from homony...

deb

Been reading a lot on Native American corn. Hominy has the outside shell taken off by soaking in lye, Native Americans used wood ash. Masa for corn tortillas are made with hominy also. Does something to the protein, regular ground corn meal won't work the same.
Pretty interesting, I've never heard of it, and don't know if the Native Americans knew, or just made hominy so it was easier to grind? A primarily corn based diet can kill you, 'pellagra' disease from lack of niacin. The hominy process makes niacin nutritionally available from the corn.
Apparently making corn into hominy wasn't done when when the grain became popular worldwide. Took awhile to put two and two together and was a big problem back then, Native Americans, north and south, didn't develop pellagra.
Now days everything is enriched with vitamins so not a problem.

 

[Beer can]

I grew up eating cream of wheat and loved it.
I will eat grits once in awhile.

DD #3 called about 30 min. Ago she was on her way to Walmart to get a wet vac she has 2" of water on the floor though out the house.
She's in Pensacola.
She was not able to get renters insurance when she moved in because hurricane season had already started.

Dad always had that Wheatena stuff, loved it. Haven't had it since I was a kid.
DD#4 loves grits so we have them once in awhile. I'll cook up a batch give her what she wants with milk and sugar. Then I'll add sharp cheese, butter, milk, garlic, to the rest and top it with over easy eggs for DW and me
Actually it's not always grits, sometimes it's corn meal mush.

 

[CapricornFarm]

arg!

Can't keep up!

achem...congrats to people with new new badges!

Hope no one is swept away with the new hurricane. ..getting hard to keep track of all the hurricanes this year!

Awesome recipe sharing.

Eh on hominy... I had grits growing up, and creamed wheat. And stuff that is now seen as odd ... like blood sausage, goose fat smeared on bread, head cheese fried in bacon fat, cornmeal everything . .. and other stuff.

Beans...in general I highly dislike them...I just associate beans with not enough money to buy food that tastes good.


AND GUESS WHAT WEATHER I AM HAVING? ??




yep...more rain. ...MORE!

It is looking like we might reach 3 months of rain....almost solid rain.

Sorry Al, how are you ever going to get anything done? It is very depressing to have so much cloudy and rainy weather.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I grew up eating cream of wheat and loved it.
I will eat grits once in awhile.

DD #3 called about 30 min. Ago she was on her way to Walmart to get a wet vac she has 2" of water on the floor though out the house.
She's in Pensacola.
She was not able to get renters insurance when she moved in because hurricane season had already started.

Oh my, that is terrible! Hugs to her!

 

[chickadoodles]

I've ate lots of them raw when i was a kid, never got sick.
Finding mixed info on it, some say poisonous some say so mild no effect IDK?
Saw red one's are the most toxic? These are tiny purple black.
Never was sick from them but I won't be trying them raw anymore anyway

It's a good thing you never got sick from them.
My dad ate so many poison I've berries when he was a kid he got it so bad that his mom had to take him to the Dr. The Dr said he would never have a reaction to them again and he didn't lol
I have never tried them but I want to so I'm growing g some.

When I was 14? Hid three $50 bills rolled up in the end of my 12ga shotgun. Worked in the bluestone quarry every summer vacation, winter/spring break etc. If I didn't spend it eventually mom and dad would run short and 'borrow' $ (never pay it back) to buy stupid stuff like food.
Forgot all about it until I saw little pieces and chunks in the melting snow around the bird feeder that I had shot a squirrel that winter
Gathered as many of the pieces I could find, dried them out, no way could they be reconstructed/taped....
Friends mom took me and the envelop of money confetti to the bank (no way could I have let my parents find out lol) I explained what happened hoping they would replace the $, they couldn't but sent it out and I was mailed back a check for $150 from the Federal reserve

That's fantastic you got your money back! Wow