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Post by gams on Jul 25, 2007 23:38:37 GMT -5
Oooo! Hope your thinking process and decision making goes smoothly, Quetta....as smooth as I imagine that carmel pie ice-cream would taste on the hot day I make it down there to visit if you take this gig. I packed lots of good karma in the boxes that are finally making their way to you, (just remember when opening these boxes, be careful what you say you like in these here threads - you just might end up with it).
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Post by maeve on Jul 26, 2007 5:44:13 GMT -5
On the veggie table...fried squash, squash casserole, broccoli casserole, at least four bowls of potato salad, cole slaw, butter beans, (but no speckled, it's been too dry), tomatoes, cukes, fried corn, corn on the cob, cornbread, mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, green beans, green bean salad, 7-layer salad, deviled eggs, and some kind of fried Asian-type noodles in a skillet that Inez loved. Desserts were no disappointment either....Red velvet cake, German chocolate cake, pound cake, cheesecake, lemon pie, chess pie, cookies, and a 7-layer fruit bowl that was about three feet deep! Dang! But where was the banana pudding? the fried okra? Can you produce a family tree? STP, aka Sister Trout, said to tell you that her family is really small and she is absolutely positive she is related to someone in your family... I say, as soon as you can see the whites of her eyes, hide the fried corn. What a divine dinner!! I'm hoping the good talks continue and you get all you want! Maeve
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Post by Quettalee on Jul 26, 2007 18:43:40 GMT -5
Can you produce a family tree? STP, aka Sister Trout, said to tell you that her family is really small and she is absolutely positive she is related to someone in your family... Are you serious? If she is from that far south, it's entirely possible because Papa had five brothers and two sisters mostly spread out between south Ga and north Fl. The family name is Noles. And I bet yall don't know a thing about scraping no corn nor shelling no butter beans...
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Post by maeve on Jul 27, 2007 22:13:00 GMT -5
Can you produce a family tree? STP, aka Sister Trout, said to tell you that her family is really small and she is absolutely positive she is related to someone in your family... Are you serious? If she is from that far south, it's entirely possible because Papa had five brothers and two sisters mostly spread out between south Ga and north Fl. The family name is Noles. Actually STP has always lived in NW Georgia -- which, unlike Florida, is in the South... <grin> She just wants an excuse to enjoy your food. BOLL. Q, you're right, I don't know jack. But if you're asking about making sure you get all the corn milk when you scrap corn or not missing any shellies when you shell butter beans, STP is one of the best. She still uses her grandmother's skillet for cooking pones of cornbread. And it's fine cornbread. Oh, STP is a real southern woman. Grew up with a dirt front yard, the truck garden was behind the house. She can earnestly talk about cornmeal for hours. Got her first indoor plumbing when she was a teenage, if you can call the back porch indoors. Come winter, the slop jars re-appeared. When latex gloves became available to public she was overjoyed; her least favorite thing in the world is plucking chickens. (We don't keep chickens anymore.) STP can be downright confusing. I swear she can quote every line Faulkner or Flannery O'Connor wrote but needs to have a truck, mpg be damned. She wept when I took her to Greece and she first saw the Acropolis, knows where the best cedar mills are, can fix just about anything, and must be the prototype for southern stubbornness. She'd be honored to take you on in a corn scraping contest. Maeve
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Post by Quettalee on Jul 28, 2007 12:41:09 GMT -5
Too funny, Maeve. It does sound as if we share the same roots. I can remember my granny wringin the neck, pluckin it, cuttin it up, fryin it up, and servin the scraps up to the dogs off the back porch--every single day for lunch (dinner). She was cooking for all the farm hands. And it was chicken...and usually pork because he raised hogs as well as tobacco...and a table-full of food--not chips and dips either. We're talking beans and peas and tomatoes and squash, corn...and always cornbread. Ho' cakes was Papa's favorite--little round corn meal cakes always fried on the same little skillet with a piece broke off one lip. When she made cornbread in the oven, it was usually cracklin' cornbread. Dang...I gotta fix me some lunch!
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Post by Quettalee on Jul 28, 2007 16:13:32 GMT -5
Had some nice northern-grown pickled beets to go with my lunch. You can't just pick those Yankee beets up anywhere, you know. I'm pretty sure you have to have connections in "higher up" places! I'm thankful for mine.
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Post by gams on Jul 28, 2007 21:06:42 GMT -5
Ya know...I still have never tasted pickled beets. It was kinda funny - right after you mentioned that you liked them, I walked down the the gourmet food shop to see if they had any - the guy looked at me like I'd asked for some alien food stuff only available once every billion light years. But he took my name and number and said he'd try.
I never heard anything back, and then stopping at the berry farm to get my white chocolate blueberry cream pie fix one day on the way home from work, I screamed, "Pickled Beets!" They looked at me like I was an alien from a billion light years away.
Did the other package make it? That was the one I was worried if the box would hold together during shipping.
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Post by Quettalee on Jul 29, 2007 22:44:13 GMT -5
And speaking of blueberries...Eating blueberries slashes colon cancer risk by 57 percent, animal study finds.
Thursday, July 26, 2007 by: Mike Adams
A compound found in blueberries shows promise of preventing colon cancer, according to a new study. Scientists at Rutgers University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducted a joint study on animals, and found that the compound -- called pterostilbene -- lessened pre-cancerous lesions and inhibited genes involved in inflammation. Researchers presented the study at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting in March.
"This study underscores the need to include more berries in the diet, especially blueberries," said study leader Bandaru Reddy, Ph.D., a professor in the chemical biology department at Rutgers. Although the blueberry compound won't cure colon cancer, it represents a strategy for preventing the disease naturally, said Reddy, who specializes in studying the relationship between nutrition and colon cancer.
The researchers studied 18 rats in which colon cancer had been induced in a manner similar to human colon cancer development. All of the animals were placed on a balanced diet, with half of the animals' diets supplemented with pterostilbene. After eight weeks, the rats fed pterostilbene had 57 percent fewer pre-cancerous colon lesions compared to the control group. The researchers also noted that pterostilbene inhibited certain genes involved in inflammation, considered a colon cancer risk factor.
Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. It has been linked to a high intake of saturated fats and calories common in Western diets. Pterostilbene may be able to reverse this process, possibly by lowering lipids, Reddy said.
Reddy cited a recent study by co-author Agnes Rimando of the Department of Agriculture. Rimando demonstrated that blueberries, particularly their skins, can lower cholesterol when fed to animals.
Some thirty different species of blueberries are native to North America. The berries are rich in anthocyanins, widely recognized for their antioxidant qualities. Blueberries are also a good source of ellagic acid, which blocks metabolic pathways that can lead to cancer.I'm still trying to learn a proper appreciation for the Blueness. They were a big hit the other day in my pineapple/blueberry upside down cake.
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Post by Quettalee on Jul 29, 2007 22:54:00 GMT -5
Did the other package make it? That was the one I was worried if the box would hold together during shipping. It was all good, C. And I love it! You know we both do. I told Mare you could've almost drove it down here yourself for what the postage cost. We can't decide on the perfect spot yet, however, so it has spent the weekend on the ottman. (Where if it happens to be covered by a woobie and you plop your feet up there on top of it, it makes you say, "Now that's gonna leave a mark!") Getting treasures in the mail is the best. Yep.
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Post by maeve on Jul 30, 2007 13:54:07 GMT -5
Ho' cakes was Papa's favorite--little round corn meal cakes always fried on the same little skillet with a piece broke off one lip. When she made cornbread in the oven, it was usually cracklin' cornbread. Now you did it Q. STP postively glowed at the mention of cracklin cornbread -- something she loves dearly but can't have cause of all the fat. She stalked off muttering about how she wasn't the one who moved north. When I tried to explain that Indy wasn't really the north, her comeback was any place that got snow regularly was the north... But your two posts made her day. Thanks for triggering a trip down her memory lane. A {{big}} hug to you. Maeve
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Post by Quettalee on Jul 30, 2007 18:23:28 GMT -5
No problem, ladies. Guess I'll be in for some more of that southern cuisine sooner than later.
Just got the news about a hour ago that Inez had fallen--from a chair where she was spraying ants. Pfft. I'm waiting for the call from the hospital to see how bad it is--but there was mention of her ribs on the first phone call. Pfft. Pfft.
Time to pack.
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Post by Joxcee on Jul 31, 2007 0:27:05 GMT -5
Goodness. I hope she didn't break anything. Have a safe trip there and back.
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Post by gams on Jul 31, 2007 6:57:53 GMT -5
As always, Q, travel safely. I snuck, (see, I learned I can use that without being grammatically incorrect), lots of good vibes, karma, and hugs into your suitcase while you weren't looking.
Hope Inez is okay, and that you are home safe and sound soon.
Take care. One more hug for the road.
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Post by fallenangel on Jul 31, 2007 8:55:00 GMT -5
Have a safe trip Q . I hope your mom's okay.
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Post by maeve on Jul 31, 2007 11:49:41 GMT -5
Oh, Q, I am so sorry for all of you. I hope Inez is okay. I hope Mare knows we all thinking of her as well. And as for you, a friend of mine who climbed to the top of Mount Olympus when she was 87 always said "you can go without sleeping or you can go without eating, but not both." I might add that inhaling a 'naneer pie while cruising at 80mph does NOT constitute eating. Please be as careful with yourself as you are with others. Let us know what we can do -- you too, Mare. Maeve
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Post by Quettalee on Aug 7, 2007 14:46:11 GMT -5
Ah, ladies, I'm so sorry I didn't respond to all your posts here in this thread. I think I answered mostly at the tavern. Thank you for all the support you always give me. I try not to go on and on about the negative. Like Jox says, "We come here to leave all that behind for a minute." Lots of errands today. Bought Michigan blueberries and Australian oranges! Not sure I've ever gotten oranges from Down Under, but it's the first I've seen in the store for a while, so I thought I'de "givem a go"! The blueberries are from Grand Haven and they are targeted for my nummie blueberry chess cake... ...Can you smell it yet??
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Post by Quettalee on Aug 8, 2007 19:07:05 GMT -5
The blueberries were delish. The chess cake was scrumptous. The two together were heavenly! I heard, "better than sex", "better than the puffy things from the bakery", and "will you marry me before breakfast?" I took them all as compliments. Tomorrow's sweet delight...pineapple orange sunshine cake. Made with mandarin oranges in the batter and cool whip and pineapple in the icing. A nice, cool, light summer cake.
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Post by katmandu on Aug 9, 2007 2:41:22 GMT -5
Wondering what that fantastic smell was that enticed me in here, now I know, "Blueberry Chess Cake" hope you saved me a piece champ, must be out of this world if all those comments are anything to go by.
Funny world ain't it, you but Aussie Oranges over there while I buy Californian ones over here at times.
Oh yeah, and don't forget to save me a slice of that pineapple orange thingy as well ........................ please.
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Post by gams on Aug 9, 2007 6:52:44 GMT -5
I'd worry if you were in the market......and in the market for a guy. A man's heart is through his stomach. Pfft. Better than sex....something I've never heard Hub's say about my cooking. LMAO. I take that as a compliment.
But since you aren't in the market for anything but fresh fruits for your delights, congratulations to you.
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Post by Quettalee on Aug 9, 2007 18:30:38 GMT -5
Wondering what that fantastic smell was that enticed me in here, now I know, "Blueberry Chess Cake" hope you saved me a piece champ, must be out of this world if all those comments are anything to go by. Oh yeah, and don't forget to save me a slice of that pineapple orange thingy as well ........................ please. You got it, Katman. The sunshine cake was a four-layer..er. Beautiful to look at and tasty to boot! We were dead at the creamery today, however. Just too danged hot. Second day in a row for record temps for us here in Hoosierland. They were telling everyone to stay home and #1 daughter got to come home at 10:45 from her first day back to school due to the heat. No baking tonight. Gams, I'm not sure if it's the cakes I bake or the cakes that...um...I carry with me all day. The only place I seem to get ice cream on me is...well...the parts that have to reach over into the bottom of that ice cream freezer all day. Tuff being short and...um..."cake-heavy"...all at the same time.
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