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Post by Steve Turner on Apr 21, 2013 14:54:16 GMT -5
Is anybody here? There is a huge echo.
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Post by jerrycsmith on Apr 21, 2013 15:53:48 GMT -5
Is anybody here? There is a huge echo. (crickets) |
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Post by Steve Turner on Apr 21, 2013 16:25:21 GMT -5
I didn't even hear the crickets.
By the way, how's that potato gun doing these days? I probably shouldn't have mentioned that.... the guvment might ban spuds... or worse yet, buy up 1 million pounds of Idahos. I guess that you could use a Rutabaga as ammo. What else are they good for?
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Post by Tommy Thompson on Apr 21, 2013 16:59:53 GMT -5
Hi Steve, it's been sort of quiet the last few days. Sometimes though it really picks up...
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Post by jerrycsmith on Apr 21, 2013 17:58:57 GMT -5
The tater gun is alive and well, and was used a few weeks ago while my boys and I were having an afternoon of shooting every gun we owned. Any pulpy veg will work, even an onion. Rutabagas, on the other hand, are almost too damn hard to cut even with a sharp knife, or I would eat them all the time. Love 'em. Been known to get a double order at a meat & three place.
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Post by Steve Turner on Apr 22, 2013 14:06:14 GMT -5
We like Rutabagas, too. They really are tough! It's the only time that Peggy will let me into the kitchen with a hatchet. I usually dose them down with a little pepper sauce and it makes me Happy, Happy!
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Post by jerrycsmith on Apr 22, 2013 15:07:46 GMT -5
When my Mom & Dad lived in Baltimore in the 1930s, she got all the free turnip greens she wanted from the grocery store because up there they only ate the turnips. She fixed them Southern style, and pretty soon everybody in the apartment building wanted some.
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Post by Tommy Thompson on Apr 22, 2013 16:56:03 GMT -5
We like Rutabagas, too. They really are tough! It's the only time that Peggy will let me into the kitchen with a hatchet. I usually dose them down with a little pepper sauce and it makes me Happy, Happy! one of my grandmothers made a rutabaga pie once...it was the most horrible things I've ever tried to eat...it was bitter |
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Post by Steve Turner on Apr 22, 2013 17:21:37 GMT -5
Rutabaga Pie??? I guess it was bitter... dang. Was it perhaps Rhubarb Pie? I understand that it can be bitter too. I've just never heard of someone making a pie from Rutabagas. But, hey, if you're hungry things start tasting better.
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Post by nancy on Apr 22, 2013 18:17:18 GMT -5
Surely it was rhubarb pie! It can be really good if mixed with strawberries and plenty of sugar. I had never cooked rhubarb until we lived in Iowa. It was very popular there. And rutabagas....I really like but just about given up on cooking them because they are too hard for me to cut and peel.
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Post by jerrycsmith on Apr 22, 2013 19:47:16 GMT -5
Dittos on the cutting; I even tried an electric knife.
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Post by Tommy Thompson on Apr 23, 2013 11:27:12 GMT -5
yes, I'm sorry it was a rhubarb pie...it was a long time ago when I was a kid visiting one of my grandmothers...it was awful.
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Post by nancy on Apr 23, 2013 14:22:06 GMT -5
Rhubarb is very tart...not bitter. But as a kid that is probably how you remember it, Tommy. It is really good if made the right way and as I said it takes lots of sugar!
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Post by jerrycsmith on Apr 23, 2013 14:24:01 GMT -5
How would one go about tasting rhubarb pie in our area? Never heard of any restaurant offering it.
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Post by Tommy Thompson on Apr 23, 2013 23:25:02 GMT -5
Rhubarb is very tart...not bitter. But as a kid that is probably how you remember it, Tommy. It is really good if made the right way and as I said it takes lots of sugar! it was so bad I can still remember the taste 58 years later...LOL |
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