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| This country is going to Hell in a handbasket... | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 21 2017, 01:27 PM (139 Views) | |
| Jolly | Sep 21 2017, 01:27 PM Post #1 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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I asked one of my daughter's friends what she wanted for her birthday. She's been very good here lately about keeping my granddaughter while my wife has had a few back niggles. She didn't want a present. She didn't want a cake. her wish? A pan of biscuits. So, I've gotten down off the tractor, come in here and cleaned up a mite, so I can start making a pan of biscuits. My biscuits ain't nuthin' special, I'm sure most of y'all do a lot better. Just some self-rising flour, a bit of crisco and butter cut in with a dollop or two of buttermilk. Throw them in a skillet with a hair of bacon grease, flop 'em over once and knuckle them down. The wife will drop off my cast iron skillet and we'll pick it up later. Can't bake the durn things at home and wag them 15 miles down the road and still be fittin' to eat. It's sad that a kid would rather have a pan of home-made biscuits than a birthday cake. Young gals (or guys) don't cook anymore, which is why the country is going down the tubes. Course, the wife will throw in a pot roast, her version of chicken salad to go with the gravy and some snap beans from this year's garden. And she made a pumpkin cobbler for dessert. I suspect she'll have enough victuals to get full...Although no bigger than she is and considering how much she can eat, I think she may need wormin'... |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Sep 21 2017, 01:36 PM Post #2 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I dunno, I cook all the time. Cheaper, better for ya. I don't exactly do three-course meals or anything but enough to get by. |
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| Mikhailoh | Sep 21 2017, 01:36 PM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I guess they don't have time to cook these days. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Mikhailoh | Sep 21 2017, 01:38 PM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Injust made a pot of Texas style chili with pulled pork and chopped brisket. With a galss of cold milk or iced tea and some crusty bread, been a favorite meal of mine for decades. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Jolly | Sep 21 2017, 01:45 PM Post #5 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Yes, but you are a strange and wonderful young man...
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| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| KlavierBauer | Sep 21 2017, 02:01 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I don't cook fancy, but between L and I, we typically eat healthy and well. Lots of fruit and veggies, and lots of meat for me (these kettlebells are kicking my ass, and feeding on everything I can shove in at this point). Sometimes it's hard to eat healthy and easily - but it's definitely possible without tons of effort (trust me, I'm incredibly lazy). The turning point for me was deciding to get a meat thermometer and try grilling just about everything. I won't say I'm great at it, but as long as L handles the flavor (she's great with a beer and some herbs and spices to make a marinade), I can get it to the right temp and it seems super tasty to me. That said - almost every year for my birthday, I crave something my Mom makes that simply requires more effort/time than I'm every willing to learn how to do. Whether it's one of her salads, or her fajitas or something else - I totally get craving something comfortable and "home made by someone who isn't me" on a special day. |
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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper "He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple | |
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| Piano*Dad | Sep 21 2017, 02:58 PM Post #7 |
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Bull-Carp
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Son #1 cooks all the time. And really does a good job. Son #2, well, he'll make hot dogs for you ... It's really variable. |
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| xenon | Sep 21 2017, 08:46 PM Post #8 |
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Senior Carp
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I think the inflection point can also come when you start preferring your own version of things to stuff you get from restaurants or off the shelf. But it takes some time and experience to get to that point. |
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| KlavierBauer | Sep 21 2017, 08:50 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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We moved to a new town recently, and there are a few really good restaurants here that have thrown us off our game a bit. One place is the best Thai either of us has ever had (not anywhere, but in our state), and they deliver - so we frequently find ourselves picking up the phone to get THE FLAVOR! ![]() |
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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper "He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple | |
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