Do You Ever Fix Food For a Funeral Dinner?
Marilyn Sue McClintock
7 years ago
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Comments (24)That happens here too, LindaC. Not only when family members die, but if someone is ill or injured, or needs to leave for a couple of days, everyone pitches in. So, the farmer who has his appendix removed right in the middle of hay season? Covered. Barn burned? We all rebuild. Child in the military, wounded and in the hospital? Go, go, GO. GO NOW. The cows will be fed and the hay will be baled and the fences will be checked. the garden will be hoed and the eggs will be gathered and your refrigerator will be stocked when you return. It's all taken care of, always has been and I hope it always will be. Annie...See Moredo you ever get tired of ..food porn...please post yours too !
Comments (150)rhome, that sure is true. We all have our desire to share and help others get the most out of their new kitchens . It doesn't matter at all what the skill level, we can all learn and grow and enjoy. I see tons of talent everywhere I look and I keep looking even though I know I can't begin to make or don't want to make what others are able to do. I still love to look. I hope that everyone realizes that it is out of a sense of community spirit that we all post here long after our kitchens are "done", also I am not sure we are EVER done :) Here is part of what we did this afternoon. DH's fingers were still sore but he wanted cookies ! He has perfected his Italian Seed Cookies and wanted to make them. So here are some of the steps and the finished product. shaping the dough: place in water/toasted sesame seeds /parchment finished : These are almost exactly like the cookies from Brocato's bakery in NOLA. We just had 4 bags of them from SIL's visit and it sure was hard to tell the difference. The Brocato cookies are a tad sweeter but I like DH's best :) It has taken him years to get them perfect. He purchased ammonium carbonate as the rising agent and also twice bakes them. It makes all the difference. I wanted to show you Alto and Sax ! They are my starters. They are now about 2 yrs old. WOW do they love me LOL. Here are pics of them before and after feeding and then of the 2 breads I am in the process of making. It is a couple day thing to make bread with wild yeast starter so stay tuned to tomorrow . before feeding - fresh from fridge: after just 3 hrs: San Joaquin Sourdough auto lyse ( I let it set about 30 min) Polish Country Bread ( a light rye) auto lyse - Polish Dough is beaten in the KA mixer for 4 min on speed 2 and then let to rest 40 min. Then you do 2 stretch and folds. Rest 40 min and again. Then rise 2 hrs or so and bake. in KA: First way to do stretch and fold - pat flat : fold like a letter: Here is another way to do S and F. In the bowl with a spatula. Do 30 turns with the spatula around and around quickly bringing the dough up and over a little each turn. Do this every 30 min X 3 times. You will be amazed at the strength the dough acquires with a small amount of work. Here are pics DH took :) Tomorrow I will show the finishing touches and the final product. Hope everyone has a lovely Summer Friday night. c...See MoreWhat do you send for a funeral?
Comments (46)Sylvia, do you get upset if when calling for a dental appointment, your dentist doesn't answer the phone? Or, if your doctor isn't the person you speak to when you call with a billing question? Or if you ask in person, they say. "I don't know, please check with X"? I'm going to guess that you didn't spend a career working in an organization where administrative people played a key role by doing tasks that others could offload to, freeing up their time to do other things. It's because such tasks are valued that admin people are assigned to make sure they get done and get done on time. Like making sure that flowers get sent on time for births, deaths, and illnesses. Asking an assistant to do something is the same as doing it oneself, but as with anything else, more can get done when one can multitask using helpers. If you find that offensive, then I think you're looking for things to be offended by. In my experience, most people appreciate such gestures....See MoreWhat's the weirdest food you've ever eaten?
Comments (41)Boyohboy, don't I agree on the American Processed Food thing, read that ingredient list and some of it can't even be pronounced and probably shouldn't be consumed! I have, however, eaten horse. Back in 1973, there was a PBB poisoning of cattle in Michigan. Several thousand pounds of fire retardant was accidentally added to livestock food. After a lot of cover ups, finger pointing and denial, it was determined that the feed was contaminated. The government said there were only two disposal sites, but later investigation turned up many more throughout the state. All health departments in the state were contacted and only two responded. In the burial pits; 33,000 cattle, 1.5 million chickens 1,470 sheep, 5,920 hogs, 865 tons of feed, 17,900 pounds of cheese, 2,630 pounds of butter, 34,000 pounds of dry milk and 5 million eggs were buried.These events were portrayed in the 1981 in the documentary "Cattlegate" by Jeff Jackson, the true-fiction film Bitter Harvest starring Ron Howard, and in the book "The Poisoning of Michigan" by Joyce Egginton. At first the deaths of the animals were blamed on the farmer's lack of care or skill. Yeah. After a year, the animals were culled. Most of Michigan still has PBB in their system and the USDA says that most of Michigan's farms are so contaminated that every product produced is contaminated with some level of PBB. Anyway, as farmers were bulldozing their livestock and livelihoods into pits, everyone was afraid to eat beef. Horse meat became very common. We were lucky, because we raised out own livestock feed and purchased none of the contaminated stuff. I remember some guy from Chicago stopping at the farm and telling Dad he'd give him 17 cents a pound for the whole herd. Dad told him that for 17 cents a pound he'd eat every damned one of them himself. So, anyway, nearly everyone in Michigan during that time has eaten horse meat. Annie...See MoreMarilyn Sue McClintock
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