Archive for May, 2009

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I love homemade mayonnaise. I still use the store bought mayonnaise in my kitchen.
But I love homemade mayonnaise in potato salad, on sandwiches, and especially on
my [...]

It is the end of May here in the Deep South.
I just did one of my many daily “tours” through the garden(s), and I saw:
Lots of green tomatoes on the tomato vines.
I saw miniature Ichiban eggplant on my container eggplant.
My larger eggplant variety has several blooms on it and has grown profusely in the last [...]

I enjoyed making this primitive sheep from a pattern I got from Threadbare Primitives.
I will be adding some sewing posts so be sure and watch for them.
They walk you step by step through the entire sewing and assembly process so you can see how it all comes together.
There are so many things you can make [...]

Years ago, I was reading an article in a gardening magazine. This is funny.
I was flipping through the pages, and there was a full page ad for some plastic garbage bag company, I don’t know, GLAD or something like that. Now the kicker is this.
The garbage bag was stretched out ready to be filled [...]

I live in the South. We grow tomatoes. We grow them indoors, outdoors, on our patios, in our greenhouses, we grow them. Lots of varieties. We love them. I love them.
Everybody grows at least ONE tomato plant here. Even my neighbor that rarely goes outside or gardens, even she plants one lone solitary tomato just [...]

What is the BEST mayonnaise? What brand of mayonnaise is best? I’ve used Kraft Mayonnaise for years. YEARS. Like 35 YEARS! and that was as a cook, that was not counting when I was growing up.
Lots of people noticed a change. Mostly only loyal users like myself. Due to the rising cost of Kraft Mayonnaise [...]

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You cannot just use any old tomato to make this sandwich.
We have fresh tomatoes year round here.
To read more about that, you’ll want to view my post on the “Harman Tomato Farm.”
I’ve had tomatoes that produced a full sized sandwich slice. [...]

I got sidetracked and carried away in the Red Beans and Rice Post about the Liver Cheese Sandwich. That happens to me a lot.
Liver Cheese. Trust me and pay a little more to get the liver cheese that comes with thin deli paper IN BETWEEN each liver cheese slice. Otherwise you’ll tear it apart trying [...]

These potatoes are born buttered. Almost. You would think so.
They cost more at the SuperMarket. They deserve it.
These potatoes don’t have a “separation” between the skin and the flesh.
If you really concentrate hard, and think about it, you’ll know what I mean.
Imagine a really hard skinned potato, one of the really tough, brown skinned potato [...]

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Traditionally in New Orleans, Monday was Wash Day.
So on Mondays, the cook of the house needed a dish that could be easily prepared and free her up for Laundry Duties.
Red beans can cook during the day with little tending, and produce a very filling and delicious [...]