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GardenKatGardens wrote: »Hey Ed! Yep no doubt it never crossed her mind that many of the veggies, and many flowers have all begun as 'weeds'.
My venture into weeds began in the late 60's early 70's. My ex took up scuba diving with his boss…those two ended up talking to some guys from the Virginia Institute of Oceanography..or some such group…and it was suggested that they buy 'Stalking the Blue Eyed Scallop'…one of Euell Gibbons books. And that lead to other books in his series. While the rest of the world was laughing at eating weeds/pinetrees, we were enjoying fried lily blossoms, snails, cat tails (the kind that grow in ponds etc…not the animal's tails!!!) To this day I delight in finding new wild plants to eat!
Did you have a grandmother or older relative to used to forage and got you interested? I wish I had had such a person earlier in my life. Do you want to share what weeds you particularly like?, or how you fix them?
The only wild mushroom I will eat is the Morel. I 'know' that one, and I, like you don't ever want to eat one 'just once'!!!
Oh, and I have high hopes for my new neighbors….I see they've planted 2 fruit trees along their driveway!!! A neighbor who likes plants….that's happiness at my house!!!
I did have grandmothers who both foraged for some things, like wild blackberries (my mother's mother) and a few yard weeds (my father's mother - poke sallet for example) and in the boy scouts we learned about eating cat tail, red tea made from sumac (not poison sumac!) berries, arrow root, dandelion greens, and I forget what all other weeds, but it was interesting and tasty. Some of those weeds I no longer eat so much of because they are just not so convenient to grab, and some I grew out of liking.
Then I discovered tons of new weeds at the farmers markets! I can't even pronounce some of them, much less know how to prepare them. LOL!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! Just finished off the last of my honey rosemary slowcooked ham. Working a 7 hour middle today, so will be getting ready for it in a while. I have a seasoned pork roast thawing in the fridge to cook in a couple of days. Maybe I'll put that last little bit of marsala cooking wine in with it...
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Monday, Monday,
So I'm back from my trip to Vermont. The campground in NH was nice and the people there were friendly. I stayed over on Friday and elected to bail on the second night after the memorial service and go home Saturday night. It was a difficult day, with a wide range of emotions, I met a lot of people that were my daugther's friends and talked with a lot of people. It was pretty overwhelming, I decided to leave shortly after the service ended and made a decision to go home and be surrounded by supportive, familiar things. I'm glad I went to the service and was both dreading the day and looking forward to the day at the same time. Now that it's over my task is to carry this for the rest of my life and hope it gets easier as time goes on. I'm doing yet another 3-day week at work this week and this time the long weekend is going to be a "fun" weekend. I'm leaving Thursday on the motorcycle for my annual trip to the rally in the White Mountains, can't wait...some fun would be nice. Fury is not thrilled with any of this, she doesn't like it when I'm away. Hope everyone is doing well, have a good day all!0 -
Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Off work today, but we have orchid society meeting tonight. I don't have to worry about the hospitality table tonight as it's our annual "ice cream social" event with an orchid auction. Someone else brings the coffee, and I normally bring the bulk of the snacks, but since we have contracted out ice cream, I'm off the hook tonight.
I've ordered a "smart" watch that might be able to track my exercise for me and it will be interesting to see how well that works out. It's called a Pebble 301 and I should be receiving it in a few days. It is also supposed to be able to alert me to email, show me the weather, let me know if any asteroids or comets are about to hit me, cook breakfast for me, and keep me safe from meandering elephants and polar bears but we'll see if any of that extra stuff actually happens.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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Good Evening,
Val was right...I was off the grid out camping with Marc. We are enjoying these one night mini-cations. Getting back to work is tough though! I can't recall if I mentioned...all this camping can get you lyme disease...Uggghhh! I am now on 3 weeks of an antibiotic for it. And I can't say my body is enjoying them.
Don, it sounds like you faced a very emotionally tough situation in the best possible way. Just getting home to family - especially Fury - must have been so therapeutic.
Roger, good walking! I think the rain may have passed for several days. It is looking like the heat has moved in and only getting hotter.
Ed, I will try other variations of the chicken in the crock pot. However, I guess I have to figure more for the campfire!
Take care all,
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Good Morning..yes, I am actually here in the morning!
Val, Marc and I made a deal...we each feel the need to drop a couple of pounds, so we are taking it more leanly (is that a ward?) over the next several trips. As for the course on T. Jefferson...I think that sounds delightful...learning because you WANT to learn, not because you have to learn for an exam. Enjoy!
Rainy here, so Roger...if it is like that where you are, the walks may be limited today.
Don, is this one of your 3 work days this week? The weekend can't come soon enough!
Enjoy the day all.
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Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Working a long closing tonight, so dinner will just be a bologna and cheese sandwich that I pack up to bring with me. Nothing very exciting there.
In fact, you CAN google campfire meals and find all sorts of neat ideas. Some may be more acceptable for people trying to eat "lean" than others.
One thing I remember is foil wrapped hamburger "stew" in which you take, basically, a handful of lean ground beef, some chopped carrots, potatoes, onions, and whatever else you want in it, and wrap it carefully and tightly in a packet made from heavy duty foil. You may want to lightly spray the inner sides with cooking spray. Bury it in the hot coals for half an hour to 45 minutes or so, and then check to see if it's as done as you want. In lieu of ground beef, you could always use steak cubes, or chicken. And, of course, add whatever seasoning or herbs you want both before and after cooking.
Of course you can also make foil packets of just vegetables, or even fruit and cook them the same way. Likewise, you can foil packet cook fish, which doesn't take long at all.
Pre-cubed chicken or steak can be threaded on a hot dog skewer and cooked by hand over the live coals, if you're patient, or you can improvise a spit and turn a whole chicken or rabbit over a fire and cook it slowly. You do need a fairly hot bed of coals to do this, and do make sure that you are not using oleander or any other poisonous wood for the spit...
And if you have a cast iron dutch oven, you can do all sorts of campfire cooking with that. Especially if it's one of the ones with feet. Some recipes may call for semi-burying it or perhaps just putting coals under and on top.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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Happy Wednesday All,
Getting ready for my last work day of this week, it's going to feel strange doing a full week next week. Lots to do today, I need to get packed up so I can leave tomorrow on the bike for the mountains. Need to run an errand at the bank early, then take my new Jeep in so they can fix a problem I found with the driver's side door while I'm away. Need to hit the florist after work to get flowers for my wife as our 32nd anniversary is tomorrow. Roger, I'm not surprised you love your Frogg Toggs, I know a lot of riders that swear by them. The best feature on them is the breath-ability so that condensation doesn't form inside and cause you to feel cold and clammy. This is a feature that they offer at a very reasonable price, I ended up getting a BMW rain suit with this feature and like anything that has a BMW logo on it, costs a fortune. Have a good day all!0 -
Good Morning All,
Eeek! I am working in the real office today! I almost forgot how to get to this place (I have been working either from home or a different campus). Actually, it isn't good NOT to come in since I always forget to check my voice mail remotely...and I found messages from a couple of weeks (yes, WEEKS) back. Memo to self: when working remotely, remember to check phone messages remotely!
Don, it looks like the rain is moving out of the mid-Atlantic for the rest of this week. How is Maine looking for your ride to the mountains? It sounds beautiful! Hopefully, nature will cooperate.
Roger, thanks for the Frog-togs info. For that price (and with Wal-mart's return policy), it may be worth getting a set to try. If I don't like them, just return them! And thanks for the 2-sided grilling idea. I may look into that.
Val, great idea about googling campfire meals. I am a bit tired of Marc's standards (burgers, etc.). I appreciate that he wants to cook, but I want something different - and lighter!
Ed, the foil stew and other cooking ideas sounds easy and delicious! I actually was thinking as I drove to work today (true story) about grilling pineapple and other fruits, but then our small grill surface might have the burger flavors. The foil packet idea solves that. Love it!
Time to get to work here! All you folks out already with exercising done are making me realize I need to get moving! Enjoy the day all,
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Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Working a seven hour middle today but at least it won't be too terribly hot and the sun will be partially obscured. I've been up for a while but distracted by the usuals.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Tonight's dinner is going. I have a rolled, tied, seasoned pork roast in one slow cooker and seasoned black eyed peas in another. I'll prepare the fried (actually probably baked) okra when I get home from work. J will have something breakfasty, whatever I decide to fix him.milliehubbardyahoo wrote: »Good Morning Folks...I know I have been MIA for a while now. I am really struggling with the loss of the NS forums and everyone being scattered across the internet. I'm feeling so disconnected...I think I just need to pick a place and hang there rather that scittering around reading posts here, there and everywhere. So...there it is. On a positive note I'm still getting my exercise in, averaging about 7 miles per day but my food has been so-so. Not terrible but I'm having an affair with 12 grain bread and we need to break up!! I rationalize that it is good, whole-grain healthy smart carb - but I'm enjoying it too much and too often...so there that is too!!
I am more than halfway to my goal and need to just buckle down and get it done. Thanks for giving me the space to 'fess up...I need the support and connection of others who are working this program-and the honesty with myself on how much I really want this. I've made such progress it would be a shame to falter now. So I am re-committing myself, right here and right now. 100%, one day at a time will get me to the finish line!!!
Bread is the downfall for many people. I love multigrain breads, but, like you, tend to eat too much, too often and it's too easy to do if I have it around.
My usual bread now is Healthy Life 35 calorie/slice 100% whole wheat, low carb, high fiber, and I can have a WHOLE SANDWICH with just one carb (and mostly that is a good carb) serving coming from the bread! For breakfast, of course, I can have two slices of toast for the same. To be fair, it's not quite as big as regular sandwich bread but at least it FEELS like I'm having a real sandwich, or two slices of toast, and not just half a sandwich or one slice of toast, which is all I can have (for one carb serving from the bread) with just about ANY other "sandwich" bread out there. If it's not available I get their white wheat, but really prefer the 100% whole wheat.
This bread is good, but not so good that I'm tempted to just snack on it, so it works out better for me as the available bread in the house.
Even if you don't make it 100% every day all day, you can still get there! When you fall off, just climb back on the next day and keep on going. Slow and steady wins this race and you can do it!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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My pork roast, black eyed peas and oven "fried" okra made a GREAT dinner, with gravy from the pan drippings. Crock pot is really THE way to do a pork roast, and black eyed peas too for that matter.
J had some texican style queso sticks and french fries.
We both had chocolate cake. A very small slice for me, but then I'm diabetic and don't need any big slices of cake anyway.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! I need to do "big water" as I didn't yesterday, and do laundry, and buy cat food, and "cook" another boneless half ham, cool it, and slice it for sandwiches and such, and buy Swiss cheese to go with it in sandwiches, and maybe take a nap!
Had leftover pork roast, black eyed peas, and okra for breakfast and will likely repeat for lunch and maybe even dinner! It warms up beautifully in the microwave and is just as delicious!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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It's been a good day off so far. Laundry is nearly done. Leftover pork roast, black eyed peas, and fried okra made great breakfast and lunch. There is still a bit of leftover pork for my dinner and I can make a bit of mashed potato and steam some broccoli to go with that.
In the crock pot I reheated a small boneless half ham, with a bit of honey, garlic, mustard, rosemary and black pepper for extra seasoning. Then cooled it and sliced it with my electric slicer for nice, even slices. That will be meals and lunch sandwiches to bring to work for a few days.
I probably will dry fry some tofu tonight and J and I can make fried rice or some other kind of stir fry for a couple of meals for him.
I even got in a short nap with Lilo and Ariel!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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That's the way to snack. All things in moderation!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
And now I've diced up half a watermelon too. Some of that will be part of our nutritious dinner. The other half will be used another day...
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
And here's J's tofu and veggie fried rice that we made tonight. I dry fried the tofu for him, and cut up the carrots and broccoli (though we cut it smaller as the broccoli fried) and I cracked the eggs into a bowl. The bell peppers and onions were already sliced and frozen. He made up the sauce and did most of the stir frying.
I did take one small bite, just to taste it. I'll still say I think he makes a better fried rice than I do...and I taught him how to make it!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! Working a long middle today. It's supposed to be a good chance of rain by the time I leave so will need to bring an umbrella with me. At least dinner is already prepared for J and I can just fry some ham and steam some broccoli for mine.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! We have orchid judging photography today.GardenKatGardens wrote: »Good Saturday Morning.
Cool 70 here at the moment, cats fed..I'm sipping my way thru that first cup of coffee! Ah, the good life!!
I have to look up the perennial, stock. Or maybe Ed knows… will it grow here, or is it too hot for it in the summer. LOL, I mistyped summer and it originally said "or is it too hot for it in the SIMMER"….a slip of the finger= a basket full of truth. Our summers do SIMMER, sometimes to a full rolling boil!
After that I think I'd better work a little more on my coffee.
Hair appt and visit with DS2, and dinner somewhere in ATL today. And hockey tonite. It will be a full day.
Later…
I'm lost here. Is it too hot for what here in the summer simmer? I tried backtracking through several messages but couldn't find a reference...
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Well, my new Pebble 301 smartwatch arrived yesterday, so I spent part of the evening and part of the day configuring it and installing the apps and watch face that I wanted.
Now to figure out how to configure the protection from meandering elephants and polar bears...but maybe that's just built in, since I haven't SEEN any meandering elephants or polar bears. I guess it's working!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! I've been up for hours and quite surprised no one has posted yet! I got distracted by all sorts of things. Working a 7 hour middle today so will be leaving shortly.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Monday, Monday...
It's back to work today and the end of my series of 3-day weekends. I went to the White Mountains on the motorcycle last Thursday to a rally and stayed until Sunday. It was a beautiful weekend with some perfect days in the mountains with great riding with friends topped off by a delicious pig roast on Saturday night. It was great, I needed a "fun" weekend. Today I go back and deal with whatever came in while I was out. Hope everyone is doing well, time to make the doughnuts...............0 -
Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Off work today. I've been up for quite a while though, despite being off. I have been distracted by feeding Lilo, feeding me (ham and eggs, toast with my homemade no sugar added blackberry jam, small bowl made from my homegrown blackberries!) and getting the dishes all put in the dishwasher.
I really should get to the farmers market, as I'm about out of ghee, but don't want to do anything today. Maybe I'll just have a lazy day instead...
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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I decided to go for the farmers market before it got too late, busy, and hot.
Went to the Buford Highway Farmers Market today. I didn't buy much as I was really only going for ghee, which I was almost out of. But while there I did score all of this:
Ghee! My reason for going!
Left to right: Asian pear, Taylor Gold pear, Yali pear.
Left to right: Abate pear, Fragrant pear, zapote mamey (albeit a very small one).
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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If you've never tried a mamey, you should try it once. Have to wait until it's fairly soft to eat it though. All of the pears also will need to ripen for a few days and soften up, but I'm used to that anyway.
Looking forward to trying the four varieties I've never tried before.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Dinner tonight, leftover hamburger stew from last night. Boring but filling.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Working a long middle (8 hours) today. Bleah. It's supposed to be terribly hot, so I hope the air conditioning thing in the kiosk is in good working order!
I will start eating the pears before they are TOO soft, but I do want them to achieve full sweetness before eating.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Working a short middle today. I should be there from 10:30 to 2:30 so that's not too bad.
I do need to do "big water" indoors sometime today too.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! I have a five hour middle today and again tomorrow. It's supposed to be pretty hot out there, but I'll get by I guess. 5 hours isn't too terribly long.
I didn't ever get my "big water" done yesterday, but I did it this morning. All the plants that need to be OK look pretty much OK so I guess it's all good.
Today I'll get some boneless chuck short ribs going in a crockpot before I head out, with barbecue sauce slathered on them.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Dinner tonight was surf and turf. I started out with smoked salmon and a few buttery Ritz type crackers and segued into boneless chuck short ribs, braised in barbecue sauce.
For J I made some stir fry from cole slaw mix, peas and carrots, bell pepper and onions, barbecue sauce, sriracha, soy sauce, black pepper, and scrambled egg. Sort of a noodle free spicy lo mein dish, with the shredded cabbage substituting for the noodles. I tasted it and it was pretty good.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0
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