New Cooking Forums!

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Submitted by Lavender2 on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 14:23

For all those who love to talk food and cooking!  Seven new forums have just been added especially for you.  Check out 'Cook'n and Cuisine'.... Jump on in and ENJOY! Smile

Please share your favorite recipes in the 'Recipe Area' of the site to make them easy for all members to find and enjoy. 

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Huh?

Submitted by Gloria on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 19:48.
I can't find it..where did you hide it, Connie? I'll go looking again..I probably just over looked it. Eyes aren't as good as they used to be.

I found it okay. 

Submitted by randy cobb on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 22:52.
I found it okay.  I have to admit though, I got a little wordy.
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Need Glasses?

Submitted by Lavender2 on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 20:13.

LOL! In case you can't find the magnifying glass, Gloria... here ya go... Laughing

Cook'n and Cuisine

~ Connie    ~ Zone 5    ~ MN 

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She must!

Submitted by skbeal on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 20:42.

 Connie, that was hilarious! I wear trifocals. Maybe Gloria has reached that point of OLD AGE where she also needs TRI-Focals!

 

Susan, the Texas Yankee, the Texas Rangerette and the Assistant Administrator

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Oh yes! Susan

Submitted by Gloria on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 06:13.
Oh yes! Susan, the eyes gave up on me 10 yrs ago. Like the rest of my body..took vacation... and went south! Yell 
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I'm laughing

Submitted by skbeal on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 21:20.

Gloria, you crack me up! I wear tri-focals. My close vision is so bad that I need magnification of 10x to see things. You are just beautiful, Gloria.....The beauty inside you radiates to the outside! You are amazing! Now start posting some recipes. You're supposed to turn me into a southern belle, and a great southern cook!

 

Susan, the Texas Yankee, the Texas Rangerette and the Assistant Administrator

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Well then, bring on those

Submitted by randy cobb on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 22:02.
Well then, bring on those chittlin's, Miss Susan.  LOL
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Huh?

Submitted by skbeal on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 15:00.
Randy, the Yankee in me will stick out worse than a sore thumb when I ask you what on earth chittlin's are. I am clueless in Texas!

 

Susan, the Texas Yankee, the Texas Rangerette and the Assistant Administrator

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You know, I am not really

Submitted by randy cobb on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 23:22.
You know, I am not really sure either, but I believe that may be another work for cracklings and that would be the leftover tissue when you render pork fat (lard).  If I think about it later, I will try and find out for sure by Googling.  I do remember though that my Dad really liked that crackling cornbread, but I couldn't see ruining perfectly good cornbread by putting those things in it.  But, some people are crazy about it and then there are people like me.
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Susan and Randy

Submitted by grannyrose on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 08:18.

Chitterlings are hog intestines and crackerlings is fried hog fat with some meat attached. 

These foods came about during slavery I am told by my older relatives,  the leftovers from the hogs were given to the slaves to eat, not the good meat.  So they learned to cook any and everything.  I love crackerlings but know they are not good for  me. The ones in the store are not as good.

Grannyrose - Calendar Manager - Zone 9 - Houston,TX

I'm just one generation from

Submitted by randy cobb on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 23:32.
I'm just one generation from that too.  Although I don't remember my folks ever talking about 'chitterlings', I know that when the hogs were slaughtered, there wasn't much that wasn't used.  My Mom told us for years that they had just slaughtered a hog while she was pregnant with me and that's why I entered this world at 10-1/2 pounds.  Chunky little critter, I was.
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Randy you were a

Submitted by grannyrose on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 10:30.

big healthy baby.

I like chitterlings and cracklings Randy but stay away from the chitterlings.  My sisters live in the country and still cook them for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. My sister cooked 50 pounds and Christmas when I waa there outside in her turkey pot on the propane burner. 

My mother and grandmother used to make the cracklings by cooking them in a big black washpot after my father, grandfather, and uncles buthered hogs that they had corn fed on a wooden floor. My father raised registered hogs. After a while they started sending them to a bucher shop and didn't keep the chitterlings. My mothers says one year my fathers oldest brother and family came for a months visit in the summer after they had butchered a hog and we ate it all in that month. Too much pork.

Grannyrose - Calendar Manager - Zone 9 - Houston,TX

We had the big iron pot like

Submitted by randy cobb on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 12:23.
We had the big iron pot like that too and for the same reasons.  When we first moved to California in 1948, we joined some other relatives on some acreage we referred to as "The Okie Farm" as we all hailed from the same small town in Oklahoma.  And we had a pigpen toward the back where the hogs were kept until time for butchering.  Our neighbor across the road raises about 9 hogs per year and I bought a half a hog from him several years back.  We don't eat as much pork though as we once did.  Mostly we have chicken for meat.  But since the women of the house cook mostly chicken, I tend to lean toward lean beef cuts or pork.
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Thanks bunches!

Submitted by skbeal on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 20:11.

Dizzy and Connie, with cooks around here like Dale, Gloria, Randy Cobb, grannyrose (the infamous baker,)  and jbaby, this is FABULOUS! The only downside of all of this is that we'll all get fatter. We can discuss healthful cooking, though! This is great! It sure adds to the versatility of our site.

Alright all you well known cooks, now you have a venue in which to showcase your talents!  

 

Susan, the Texas Yankee, the Texas Rangerette and the Assistant Administrator

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That's true, Miss Susan. 

Submitted by randy cobb on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 18:27.
That's true, Miss Susan.  What I have found is that a diet for diabetics is actually a good healthy diet for anyone.  Since working on it, I haven't felt deprived at all.
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Not me?

Submitted by Lavender2 on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 20:25.

I noticed you didn't mention my name there, Susan. I must admit, cooking is not one of my best talents, passtimes... or even chores!  Lucky I married a guy who loves to cook. Smile

~ Connie    ~ Zone 5    ~ MN 

That sounds like a good

Submitted by randy cobb on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 17:53.
That sounds like a good idea.  I'm going to check that out.