Don - Great to hear from ya! The Chicken Soup and Chili both sound great, especially with Winter here.

I've got a gas fireplace now with a blower that puts out alot of heat without all the work, and my wife, our dogs, and I all love it. At my old house I had a large double door Carolina brand wood stove with a blower. I used to burn it 24/7 for about 3-days until it had to have the ash cleaned out. Tremendous amount of heat, and a tremendous amount of work. I would go thru 2 and half Cords (10 Rank) per Season.

 

Don - Soup & chili sound wonderful.

Grandfathered house I stayed in the Ozarks x5 years had big King Air wood burning stove with blowers. Only heat source. I went through lots of wood. Only nut I ‘hate’ is a Brazil nut - disgusting flavor.

 

Mom’s brother and wife had a 4,000 sq ft two story farm house (built ~1872 Wisconsin) 9 bedrooms huge family room kitchen and one indoor outhouse. Entire house was forced air floor registers. They closed off rooms which were not occupied. Built into side of a hill so nearly a three story. They went through 10 cords/month. A cousin painted an art work piece of the house- won Wisconsin state fair, 1st place. Tornado came through lifted entire roof. Resulting lift twisted the roof & house had to be raised.

 

I’m trying to wrap my head around marinating these tender boneless chicken **** in Clausen pickle juice. Sorry Jim, I have Mt Olive pickle juice not Clausen. I do have plenty of Panko.

 

Sean Combs had some wild sex parties (Freak Offs). Holy snot rockets.

 

Anyone else upgrade an iPhone to the newest version ios16.1? Heck of a difference.

 

Let me just say, that crock pot cooking is a winner in the winter. Low and slow has always been a good method. I hear the instapot and the airfryer are taking over some of those duties.

I'm chief cook and bottle washer aroung these parts for most savory dishes but my wife exceeds expectations when it comes to desserts and sweets.

I should probably share a pic or two at some point.

Its making baking season or is it making bacon season? Anyways, its warm in the kitchen this time of year.

Working your way around a kitchen is a life skill. Please share it, if you have young ones around.

 

Wow, that's a very large farmhouse for being of that Vintage. Such a shame it was lost!

 

What an F'ing creep! As many women as he brutalized and abused I'm surprised the **** is not 6ft under, which is where he should be.

 

Yeah, that guy is slime.

 

I may have this wrong but I believe the house was originally built to house two or several families - sharecroppers. It became for sale when he bought his first home which was that home. There was no indoor plumbing initially, so outhouses prevailed and original water well was a hand manual pump until an electric pump upgrade then came indoor plumbing. Huge house.

 

Norm, The Olive pickle [I think[ is gonna be tooo salty, Buy sum Claussen dill spears and use the juice Marinated over nite dredge in panko and sauté. It very gooooood

 

Jim - I have Mt Olive dill pickle spears. Only several left so I have a jar of pickle juice.

 

Sounds like a cool old place!

 

I cracked the entire bag of Filberts. I have a half dozen Granny Smith apples to make caramel taffy apples maybe tomorrow. I need to work in a batch of homemade eggnog soon, I think.

 

Wish I had a picture of that house or a picture of my cousins portrait of the house. Wrap around porches on the 1st and 2nd floors (3 sides).

 

Norm - Here's a question for ya. If you're spiking your eggnog, what's your preference for the liquor you use to spike it? I think most the people I know like to use some type of Rum, but I actually prefer Bourbon.

 

Now I like it even more! Was this place in Wisconsin?

 

I’ll spike it with Rum or Bourbon. I think key is a ‘smooth’ shallow/light Rum/Bourbon so as not to overburden the eggnog. Like yourself though, I think I prefer Bourbon. You ever had homemade from scratch eggnog? Stuff is to die for.

 

Just outside Shullsburg, WI - badger country, tons of old lead (Pb) mines.

 

Chris - Imagine an old riverboat, it pretty much resembled an old riverboat.

 

I’m finding Claussen Dill Spears juice supposedly saltier than Mt Olive dill spear juice. Think I’ll marinate a couple **** ON and see for myself tomorrow.

 

Yes I have and I love it! I haven't ever made it myself though.

 

I don’t think I’ve ever had a a tit I didn’t enjoy.😉

 

A widely held axiom!

 

Please share, we all seem to enjoy seeing good meals, but not as much as eating them!

 

Norm, Sounds like a Hotel I'm tying to picture an indoor out house I hope it was well vented


FWIW I vote burbon Interesting [to me] a Dutch guy [after the Olympics] ]bought up my grandfather's town in the bible belt and started making rum Richland Rum. I bought a bottle but never cracked the sealhttps://richlandrum.com/

 

Jim - It actually was NOT an indoor outhouse - it had sewage plumbing but it wasn’t like any modern day bathroom and it was upgraded several times over the years. I thought indoor outhouse would paint a picture of what old type bathrooms might look like at a place which had a manual pump water well then converted to an electric pump. Sure the hell wasn’t anything fancy that’s for certain.

 

OK the **** are soaking in Mt Olive brine (pickle juice) ON. I’m all about trying something novel. Have to see if I have Mom’s eggnog recipe.

 

I've always liked Mt Olive pickle products. I must admit the last jar of hamburger dill chips left something to be desired. I might have to go Vlascic on the next jar.

Any of you guys try Christmas crack cookie...snack stuff?

It looks like this.....

 

Dad’s grandparents owned (the only) hotel in Sainte Marie (Jasper County), Illinois. It even had a livery. I went to the sesquicentennial event of Sainte Marie, Illinois years ago. Someone made a float of the old ‘Geltz Hotel’.

 

Never heard of or eaten those crack cookies, but I once had a friend whose wife made killer rice crispie cannabis bars. Damn they were good!

 

I did a little research on the history of global community sanitation back before the Earth cooled - a course in Microbiology peaked my interest. Anyways, some of the first indoor outhouses had no flush boxes and the **** simply ran out downhill hopefully after carrying in water to flush out the turds. Next, came an assortment of various flush boxes which could hold water to flush the turds away. This was all manual, BTW. Then came electric water well pumps - a significant improvement. Of course this was during a time when sanitation was extremely rudimentary. Beats the hell out of a community cistern I guess. We’ve come a long way in our understanding of community sanitation and health.

 

Hell of a Big 10 Championship Football game going on. #2 Ranked Indiana is up 13 - 10 over #1 Ranked Ohio State with about 11-minutes left in the 4th.

 

It was in 1987…

 

Sounds like a good game.

 

That's an incredibly cool family momento! 👍

 

Two incredibly closely matched teams! OSU is now on the 12yd line with 3-minutes and change left.

 

OSU missed a field goal to tie it from the 10yd line! Indiana ball with 2 minutes and 30 seconds left.

 

It’s a nice momento, some of the recipes suck eggs.