ellie thank you for your kind words. it makes a feller proud.

thanksgiving supper turned out pretty good. the turkey wasn't dry as dust (i usually don't like turkey for that very reason) ad everything else turned out good. that glaze idea turned out real well, it kinda put a little bit of a suprising twist on the flavor of the meat. i made "west virginia style green beans" (i just named them that. i'm sure other folks make them the same way lol). trying to simulate my great granny's (rip ) beans that i loved when i was a kid. they were pretty good, but i could sure use some home grown green beans i tell you.

little robert had a blast eating up all that good food, and we sat around and sang and chit chatted and had a good time after supper. it don't get much better than that i gotta say, and i'm a very thankful person for what i got. i tried a little variation on the usual gravy: it was more of a wine/ butter sauce, verllen didn't like it much. i thought it was good. next time, i'll just make it out of ripple , and everyone will be too drunk to care if it tastes good...... hehehe

holler at yall later

ollie

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leeme see if i can think up a good pork roast recipe. are you cooking a shoulder or a loin or what? mmmmmmm makin me hungry for pork roast lol.

holler at yall later

ollie

a big onion
about 3 cloves minced garlic
some chicken (or turkey) broth

dice the onion: saute over medium heat till nice and translucent/ brown (in some olive oil, salt and pepper them). add the miced garlic , saute for like 1 min. add in some broth: turn up the heat to high, let the broth reduce.

add that mixture to a large pot full of seasoned hot water along with turkey leftovers. throw in a coupla bay leaves.

a carrot, diced
celery, diced
bell pepper, diced

in a saute pan, heat some olive oil till it's pretty hot, and cook the veggies for about 4-5 mins. salt and pepper them. throw them in the pot with everything else, along with some green onions and a cut up tomato , simmer it for several hours.

strain out everything from the soup. throw away the veggie-hulls. you can re-ad the meat to the soup, as the carcass should be easy to debone now. let that mixture simmer for awhile, to cook down some, taste for salt and pepper.

when you are ready to eat some noodles, put some of the soup in a seperate pot and boil some egg noodles, wide ones. verleen likes to take some hardboiled egg and put it on top of the soup along with some green onions.

good for leftovers.

ollie

anyhow, what i'm gonna do is, try out this pork loin thing i'm thinking of next week, and if it turns out good, i'll tell you all what i did. in the meantime, if you are just itching to have a pork roast, try using a dry rub made of a mixture of cumin, new mexico chile powder, black pepper. then cut a couple of (wait do this first) little pockets in the roast and stick little slivers of garlic in there. last, when it's about done, glaze it. i'm big on glazes these days lol. sear the roast in a heavy skillet in olive oil bfore you roast it. and , be conservative on the cooking time: a little sooner to come out of the oven than you think: then let it rest for a half an hour before carving.

but anyhow, i'll think up a better recipe here soon. i used to keep a recipe site up, but i took it down cause noone ever went to it lol.

ollie

"I hope it's not more soup!" (That scamp, Emma)

Did they ever have soup at the diner?

(ps i never measure anything)

what you will need:
low sodium (lite) soy sauce
fresh thinly sliced ginger
tons of sliced garlic
plenty of fresh sqeezed lemon juice
a coupla sliced jalapeno peppers
some honey, to take the edge off
black pepper
some chikin broth

combine this stuff in a pan and heat it till it is mixed well. stick it in a large bowl (maybe a glass one) and let it cool to room temp (imortant....... you don't want to put raw chikin in hot liquid). when it is cool, put in some chicken breasts and marinate them in the fridge for at least 4-6 hours. or even more if you'd like.

in the mean time:
take a few red bell peppers and a coupla ears of corn and roast them in the oven (@400 degrees or so) . you can cheat a little and boil the corn a little first. coat the peppers with olive oil first.

take these roasted ingeredients and combine them (taken off the cob and dice and de-seed the pepper, remove it's blackened skin too.....) with a little diced red onion, some minced garlic , some cilantro, some olive oil, some salt and pepper and some honey, thus, making a nice looking salsa type item. keep it at room temp.

when you are ready for the chicken: i suggest grilling it. till it is almost done, then letting it rest, thusly steaming itself till it's done. you gotta make sure to sear t real good so it doesn't get dried out.

when that is done, put some white rice (not minute rice......) on a plate, lean the chicken on it (you can slice it real pretty first if you like), spoon some of the salsa over top, add a little sprig of cilantro to the top. it's good.

ok, no more cooking things for awhile lol. i feel like a windbag. hahaha

ollie

Saw the Grinch last weekend and saw Bounce this weekend and I'll tell ya, I bet my head didn't hit the pillow til after 10:00pm. Other than that, me and Gilly just been hanging out. He has been hunting and I'm dreading him coming home with something...only cuz he'll want his picture took with it and, well, I don't like to look at it. I'm a wimp. I'll admit it. You'd think that a mountain gal could take it, but, well, to be honest, when I make fish muttle, the fish come from the grocery store...all nice and packaged. I tell ya, I'm glad for these new fangled ideas!

Idelle

I was just wondering seeing as Christmas is just around the corner if we could do a TAGS twist on the 12 days of Christmas. Here is my list.

1. One bullet in Barney's pocket.

2. Two maximum security cells.

3. Aunt Bee's homemade batches. (2 batches of pickles and one of Marmilade)

4. Four tires on the squad car.

5. "Five" on Barney's watch.

So there is all I could think of....chime in everyone. Miss Ellie

ollie

Lillian

This isn't easy, MissEllie. How did you get so many? This is my last contribution.

Lillian

Miss Ellie

3. the 3 different names of Clara Edwards.

How's everyone doing this cool night. Mayberry is having cooler than normal temperatures this fall/winter. "Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Miss Ellie

4 singing Darlin sons

5 points on Andy's star badge that pins on

6 points on the badge sewn on Andy's sheriff's coustume

Lillian

Here's prayin for world peace, presidental peace, and most importantly, personal peace.

Long live Mayberry!

It tis a slow day #1159. Good prayers too.

Miss Ellie

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your old chat buddette

A lot of families argue at Holidays. And like Moonbeam said a lot of holidays are hard when we have lost loved ones. We just have to appreciate the good things in life and try to forget the bad. Have a goodnight. Keep a good thought...a warm thought. We might get snow or freezing rain, up to 2 inches here in Mayberry...let us pray not. The weather people just aren't sure. Miss Ellie

Now they say between 8 to 12 inches of snow and some freezing rain. It is supposed to get to 30 degrees tonight and only up to 32 degrees all day tomorrow. THIS IS NOT NORTH CAROLINA weather ! I don't like it. Pray no one loses power. I'm not praying just for us, but for others too. I know many are in the same boat we are, without power we cannot have heat or water. But especially the elderly I worry about. Thanks folks. I'm just kinda blue this evening.

We did get to break donuts with Opie this morning. (Not the Opie Taylor that posts here but the Opie I've known for ages who used to post here). We had a good time. He is a swell guy.

Miss Ellie br>

now ain't that a co-ink-a-dink, you and Opie being from the same hometown.

We didn't have any snow, thank the good Lord. It's cold and windy, but the sun is shining, the sky is blue. The poor folks east of here had snow and freezing rain though. Bless their hearts. They also had much flooding down that way in Sept of 1999. Everyone have a nice day. Stay warm. Sure wish everyone had a nice warm home (thinking about the homeless). "Mayor Pike, vagrancy." "MAYOR !" Miss Ellie (kindly turning off the Chrismtas red)