Food for one year – one meal a day

I was thinking recently that if it came down to it, we could survive on one meal a day for one year – if we HAD to. So…I sat down with a legal pad and my recipe file and made a list of 30 meals that could be eaten each month, then calculated the the [...]

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Southern Chicken & Dumplings

Just thinking about chicken & dumplings takes me back to my mother’s kitchen.  This is comfort food at its finest, and is extremely cheap to make. Now this Southern girl doesn’t like NOODLES with her chicken when it’s supposed to be dumplings.  They are totally different critters. True Southern dumplings are like puffy pillows of [...]

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Angry Mob or Just Really Frustrated Americans?

I heard on the news last night that the DNC has taken out an ad calling Americans dissatisfied with the government “angry mobs”.   Apparently, if you disagree with what comes out of Washington, you have no right to protest. Pardon me, but the last time I checked, America WAS still a free country. Has it [...]

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Cucumber Overabundance

We have been blessed to overflowing with cucumbers this year.  I don’t know if the wet/mild summer is the reason, or if the Good Lord just saw fit to teach me how to make pickles.  I’ve made pickles 4 times so far – two batches of bread & butter, 2 batches of dill.  I can’t [...]

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Nation of Consumers

We looked at furniture recently – just to get an idea of what was available and price.  While looking at one store, we were told that there are only TWO furniture manufacturers left in the US.  Everything else is made overseas and shipped in. We were disappointed in the selection available – everything was leather [...]

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