I'm billing Paula Deen when I have my first bypass. J's mom gave me two of her cookbooks and said "she puts butter in EVERYTHING, you'll LOVE her." If she had sugar-coated deep fried sticks of butter on her show, I wouldn't be surprised (or surprised that they would taste delicious, darn her). I am partial to good food, so picking out a few favorites would be difficult. I like broiled parsnips. I like my mom's sweet potato casserole (she tweaked it this year so it doesn't cause instant tooth decay). I love lentil loaf. I like cold left-over turkey sandwiches (the smell of most meats cooking makes my stomach turn over) with cream cheese and cranberry sauce. One of my nays would be an odd "breakfast casserole" dish one of my aunts is inordinately proud of. Maybe if it were hot, fresh, and served at breakfast it would taste better. Another nay would be dust dry stuffing. Mushy stuffing isn't good either, but the crumbs need to be moistened a little. One of my all time favorite Thanksgiving foods was a cousin's exploding gravy. We were never really sure what exactly caused it (in my family, it's safe to assume a prank), but we all had to try some after most of it escaped captivity. The element of danger made it taste pretty good.

I was in a really big national chain grocery today. There was a little "Fall" display with mostly flowering plants of the mumish flavor and little pumpkins and gourds for decorating with. One jack-o-lantern type pumpkin another that might be a cheese--both more part for the decor than in the baskets for sale--and some pie pumpkins. A faint waft of that pie spice thing. In all, however, it looked appropriate enough for nearly 90°. :) I was admiring the restraint. :D

Nice pic titian1! It snowed a bit here last night...windy and cold today...Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Nanadoll, I hope your doing ok... Please let us know when you get the chance... The Bloomstrucks have been crushed with snow & ice...

Our broccoli and collards look great. They stand up to freezes well. Last year I planted spigarello lisca broccoli. It doesn't make heads like broccoli, but it made wonderful greens that didn't mind our summer and laughed at bugs. I need to remember to plant it next year. Nancy, I've frozen mushrooms like that, but I thought you bought them frozen, LOL. Funny Rick I know the terms slave cylinder and master cylinder from a truck that sat in our front yard for a long time. Ron kept replacing parts on the clutch. He finally sold the truck. If I remember correctly Totally Tomatoes was a good company that was sold. Not so good since then. Seeds n Such has beefmaster. I think the owner used to own totally tomatoes. (I think this was a Đawn story.) I have purchased from Seeds n such. They're ok, and I think when someone had problems with germination they were quick to resolve the issue. We do buy canned soup, makes a quick lunch. I prefer Progresso brand. They have great tomato Basil soup. And every now and then I like old fashioned Campbell's tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches. That brings back memories. (I am very nostalgic today). Moni, native Ginger and what comes from the store are different. I tried to grow grocery store Ginger without success. I did grow it with a start from Companion Plants .https://www.companionplants.com/catalog/ Also turmeric. Turmeric is a beautiful plant. I even had it bloom. I don't know where Danny got his, which I believe he said was native wild ginger. Re: holidays...I've never been much of a Baker. Occasional cookies. But I realized when Travis was 2 he didn't understand the book with cookies coming out of the oven because he'd never seen it. I always felt overwhelmed taking care of kids and house, so Christmas added to my stress. I don't have those stresses now, but memories make me less then than enthusiastic. Of course Christmas morning is good, just not the lead up. Ok, this was done in "colornote" and the keyboard behaved. In Houzz I would type something and it would jump over to before the last letter of the previous word and type the next word there. Sometimes it skipped letters, usually vowels. It did the same when I changed keyboard apps. I changed to Firefox because chrome gave me trouble with Houzz. I suspect it is houzz, but I don't know where to go now. I don't have room for another app. Also, today FB won't let me paste. Instead of the paste option it says auto complete. If I press that, it asks for a password. In a comment. WTF? Enjoy your weekend.